Doctors and Consultants good but Admin is shocking, Confidentiality is not respected, I have not received consistency of care
I was so happy to find a private female GP in Wales at last. I paid for tests with consultants, bloods and to see a GP 3 3times to get my meds up and running. Consultant was wonderful, GP was wonderful. It cost me no small amount to get myself up to date on meds for very serious illnesses including cardiac and breathing issues but I was happy to pay that to know I was getting care.
Admin however is a nightmare. Although you paid for the GP and Consultant to treat me and prescribe meds the admin then take over & release meds in a way where you have to keep paying for consultations, I was charged the wrong amount for tests & consultations more than once. When I asked questions about this I was treated like a trouble maker, my questions were not answered, I was fobbed off and told to ask again over and over without getting any full answers. I felt like I was fighting for every word I was given. Then a problem with a prescription arose, the prescription was sent to a chemist without my knowledge or agreement and I was more or less accused of trying to get something for nothing. I asked for the prescription to be cancelled as I have always paid my way and was deeply upset by the implication I was out to con them in some way when I was the one being overcharged and messed around. I asked questions but iGP team became more hostile. I asked for the prescription to be cancelled. I was then faced with paying for yet another consult to get what should have been on going care.
Then I was told by the third party chemist that they had been told information about me by iGP. They stated that they had been told I was no longer a patient of iGP. I asked iGP about this, they categorically denied the conversation. So I asked the chemist for the details. I have now been told that in April the third party was told that I was not welcome at iGP anymore and was no longer a patient. They still have not told me this & were offering me appointments. I decided not to use iGP again in Aug because they are dangerous.
At one point I received two calls telling me I probably didn't know what had been said to me, I had probably forgotten. NO, I needed one set of tests done but the wrong tests were done. I was told by someone who was not in the room that I probably was "confused" because I sometimes "forget things" no I don't & I have a note of what I was told to keep track of the costs after some mistakes had been made when they were charging my card so I was not at all confused. I was told that was not said to me by someone that was not in the room when it was said. I felt manipulated.
iGP have never told me I am no longer a patient or that I was not welcome. The fact I have been told this by a third party is outrageous. I am deeply distressed by this and see it as a breech of my confidentiality. If iGP felt that way they should have written to me and told me not put it out in my community like a bit of gossip. I still have nothing in writing from iGP telling me this. I was in tears when I read the letter from the chemists. I realised I had been disrespected, gossiped about.
I had been asking questions and given no answers and told no conversation had happened. But the letter from the chemists gives info they could only have got from iGP. Not only that but iGP have not followed up with me to ensure I am ok even through it should be clear I am without the meds I need to stay alive and that is worrying in itself. Where is the duty of care here. They didn't tell me I was no longer a patient, they told a third party I wasn't a patient but treated me like I was no longer a patient. That backs up what the chemist is saying they were told about me.
I am now left without meds and facing paying out for all the tests and consultants all over again so I can get back the care that should have been on going. Where is the duty of care here?
Consultants and doctors here are good but the admin for this group are a disgrace. If they make a mistake they need to explain. The fact that they breached my confidentiality and gossiped about me is deeply distressing. I travelled 200 mile round trip to attend appointments because I wanted good care. Admin really lets this group down and seem to be hostile to explaining anything. I however, will not be vilified.
Now I will have to travel 400 mile round trip to start all over again, pay again for all the tests, see consultant and GP consultation. In the mean time I am left without medication that I can not live without, my life has been placed at risk because admin don't like me asking simple questions like why have you charged me twice? Why have you charged me for that test when it was this test? Suddenly stopping my meds like they have has caused me serious medical problems.
I am outraged, I have been made a figure of gossip. Gossip that I have spent 9 months trying to this sort out. What a mess they have left me in.
Please be careful if you use iGP !
UPDATE
Again the answer is ask again.
6 de julio de 2022
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