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33 reviews from the local community
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Awful
There is only one decent GP at this surgery (Dr Cook) if you can’t get to see/speak to her you have no chance of getting any help.
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Incorrect info & advice given by reception
Doctors are very good, if you can get to see one! Reception/triage team or whoever are responsible for getting you through the iron curtain need more training or to stop reading from the script. Standard response is “you can always call 111” or “go to Clacton walk in clinic”…I just need my medication please but they make you jump through hoops when it is not necessary, but whoever you are talking to on the phone will not listen and just repeats as above – so basically ‘go elsewhere’ if you can’t do as we request and call back again tomorrow. Been called in numerous times for no good reason only to be apologised to for wasting my time. Even the professionals are frustrated at the Administration staff. No common sense or practicality being used. Very frustrating and a shame as the Dr’s & Nurses are excellent when you eventually get to them!!
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Indifferent
I attended in person Caradoc at their request only to be informed the appointment was a Telephone Appointment. I showed the Reception their request. The appointment did not take place and information was placed on my Medical Record by non-medical staff that was misleading, did not reflect the events that took place and could cause someone else have a very different opinion.
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Timely and compassionate care
I have recently been seen by one of the GP’s at Caradoc and am really satisfied with the prompt assessment and onward referral for my two conditions. The GP was approachable and accommodating.
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Superb GP Service
Thank you so very much for the care, concern and follow-up from all at Caradoc Surgery in Frinton-on-Sea, Essex, and in particular Dr Alison Cooke and the lovely lady who called me this morning to make a referral for me, whose name I sadly didn’t catch. At this very difficult time of lock down in the midst of COVID-19, I have had a swift consultation, thorough examination, 2 referrals, phone calls and follow up, all conducted with immense professionalism, safety, PPE and care. Time was allocated and the knowledge and personal touch of Dr Cooke is second to none; she is like an old style community family Doctor and we as a family feel blessed to have her and the team at Caradoc taking top care of us. THANK YOU and we will be clapping on Thursday at 8pm for Caradoc and in particular for Dr. Cooke. Denise Jackson.
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Shocking this surgery is not fit for purpose
Very stressful trying weeks for appointment then the doctor not bothering to examine or say much seemed utterly clueless and too tired to function . Feeling really upset he didn’t really listen
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Doctors just do not care
I went for my prescription review as I am on long term medication, the Dr called me through gestured for me to sit and said ‘ blood pressure’ pointing at my arm, once he had taken it he silently printed off a sheet of paper, then stood up and said ‘book a blood test’ and opened door for me to leave. 6 words he spoke and it made me feel neglected and of no consequence. If you can not talk to your local GP then who do you talk to ? The treatment I received is an example of just how terrible this practice has become.
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A complete and utter waste of time
Trying to get an appointment means a day wasted waiting for the phone to be answered. Despite a screen in reception saying you can make an appointment in advance this is not the case when you finally get through.
Staff are very unhelpful when a patient has a problem.This leads to anxiety.
The thought of having to contact the surgery makes me feel ill
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Appointments system hopeless
Trying to get an appointment is enough to make you ill. Who thought up this third-world system?
Ace has failed in Frinton. The town deserves better.
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receptionists rude incompetent ignorant
receptionists very rude uncaring lack communication skills and have no idea how to use a computer so bossy and not interested in patients or their needs. Chattering in the back office when there’s a queue no respect for individuals.
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Not possible to obtain an appointment
Awful telephone service (if you can get through). I began calling at 7.55am it took me an hour and 15 minutes to actually speak to an operator, to then be told there were no appointments today nor any I can pre-book for this coming week. I would just have to try and do the same again tomorrow.
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Ignorant and uncaring telephone staff
AMember of family who suffers from chronic reoccurring anxiety and depression got through after 25 minutes on phone line to be told by girl on phoneline that it did not count as an emergency that they had not slept for over 5 nights. Mental health is hard enough for the patient to deal with without such stupidity and ignorance.
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Lost Power of Attorney, & rude nurse
An apparent change of computer system has not included a PoA in the Patient Record, and the Original is said to have been destroyed once it had been noted on the old system. It is a Legal document and they should NOT have destroyed it.
The nurse was extremely curt and snappy when I took a 93-year-old for her jab, seemingly because it took the old lady a few seconds too long to remove her jacket and roll up her sleeve. No compassion at all. She then snapped an instruction right in my ear to those in the waiting room to be sure to have their coats off and be ready! She said they got 2 minutes per jab. We were in the surgery less than a minute!
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Appointment system rendered service useless
Since the inception of the new appointments / queing system, I have found it next to impossible to even get an appointment at the Caradoc Surgery. A typical attempt will see you fail to connect to the appointments helpline, left instead with an engaged tone, or if in the unlikely event that you do get through, waits of up to 59 minutes. If you try to visit in person, you are confronted by unhelpful staff, and an empty waiting room. On several occasions now, my family have had to rely on the Claction Drop-in Centre, placing burden on other parts of the local healthcare system. This needs sorting out!
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An Appalling Service
A visit to the Dr’s was once a friendly experience but a visit to Caradoc has become a hostile one.
Like most other people have already stated in their reviews, it has taken me between 45 mins to an hour to book an appointment to see a Dr and even then only after being cross-examined by the receptionists as to whether my condition warrants the attention of a Dr or a nurse.
The Dr I saw back in the Spring was extremely rude and disbelieving of my condition. The Dr I saw recently was more amenable, but my overall experience of Caradoc is one of total disbelief at how dreadful this particular GP’s surgery has become.
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Appointment system is not fit for purpose
On this occasion I have been unable to get an appointment despite being connected as soon as the phone lines are open. How can there not be any appointments? they can’t be pre-booked so we have to ring on the day. I’ve had previous trouble trying to get an appointment and have even had cause to complain about the professionalism of one of the doctors. This surgery is the worst I’ve ever been registered with. Terrible.
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Absoulutely terrible service
Appointments are impossible to get and it takes 20 minutes to 1 hour before they answer the phone to find out you can’t get an appointment.
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Very Variable with good and bad experiences
In August I had a blood test; it came back with low sodium and ‘see your GP’ message. Booked appointment non-emergency earliest was just about a month later. I saw a Dr. who was meant to be [xxx – edited by HWE], who I was told I would be having the appointment with. This Doctor took me off 100mg of Setraline and 10mg in morning and 75 mg of Amytriptaline. I had been on them for about 10 yrs or more: Sertraline for depression and Amytriptaline for anxiety, OCD, insomnia, panic attacks AND for the pain of osteo-arthritis in neck and spine and hands. Amytriptaline also for migraines. He told me to come off them as their side effects include low sodium and high blood pressure, which I have. He said to over a four day period take one sertraline every other day and stop the Amytriptaline. He replaced them with mirtazapine 15mg. For the last 3 and a half weeks, I have had depression so bad that I was in bed for 6 days. I had no slept at all for 4 days and then still bad insomnia. Dizziness, diarrhoea, couldn’t walk in a straight line, motion sickness, faint light headed feeling, headache, etc. I have been unable to work; I did not get a sick note as no energy to battle to appts system. When I had reached rock bottom and into the pit of depression, my husband phoned to get me a GP appt. He rang 199 times. He still has this recorded on his phone. He finally got through at 8.30, having started calling at 8 am. He was told no appointments. I had a call back form the Pharmacist at the surgery, asked questions, she booked me next appt she could give out, suggesting I saw XXX who I had seen last time. I was so scared of coming back to see him that my husband came with me. When called in to see the GP to my surprise I found that the real XXX was fantastic and has reversed the decision of the last GP, whose name it turns out is XXX. I cried at the relief. After only 2 days back on my original medication, I can feel that I am gradually getting back to where I was before the last month or so. I feel very upset that I put my family through the last month, and that I felt so bad I could do nothing. I did think it strange that the first Dr, who I through was Dr. XXX but wasn’t (!) took me off of those medications but he is the GP and knows more about it than me, I trusted his decision XXX is superb and thank God for him. He knew exactly how I felt and what had to be done. So this has left me totally exhausted and upset that I have missed out on 3 and a half weeks of my life, as have my family. I now have to have my original 2 medications on monthly prescription to collect form surgery rather then on the 6 monthly set up. I can forsee problems with this, as I used to have problems with getting the right prescriptions until M&M helped me to get them all at 6 monthly and not needing to go to the Doctors..
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28 minutes to order a prescription
no automated voicemail service for customers to order repeat prescriptions – requires improvement rating on almost every aspect of the service, clearly little headway being made on customer service, my every interaction with this surgery has been frustrating and glacial
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Dreadful primany access to the N.H.S..
Difficult to get an appointment, Telephone service “lines busy”…. then 20 min wait, direct to Clacton Hospital walk in centre…. 8 miles away at my expense. This concerned a damaged Knee…… I have not seen anyone about this, the G.P.s are being rationed by a Telephonist following an “Idiot Sheet”
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Appalling
unbelievably poor customer service. Nothing good – the whole system needs a turnover.
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Poor service, lack of professionalism
Since the privatisation through ACE, money is more important than quality service. They now adopt a tick box approach rather than practical approach. The seem confused, and so self righteous even when they were wrong.
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This service gets Zero Stars!
25 minutes of continual ringing. Get through and am then told there is a 45 minute wait! This is progress?
Just as well that I am not suffering Depression, otherwise I might have topped myself by now!
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Over 30 minutes on hold in the telephone
4 attempts at trying to get an appointment but to no avail. I was adviced to call at 08:00hrs which led to a 40 minute hold only to be told that no doctor was available.
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degrading, frustrating, unhelpful, upsetting.
I saw a great Dr 2 weeks previous to this visit, where he referred me for emergency tests for a life threatening condition due to right sided weakness, hypertension and irregular heartbeat. He examined me throughly. Fortunately, it was all clear but was informed by my consultant to return to the doctors while neuro was being referred. I still had no diagnosis but same presentation . After rowing with manager, as they would only give me a nurses appointment she asks if it would make me happy to see the doctor… err yes please!! I didn’t even necessarily want it for that day!
When the dr saw me ( different one than one I had seen 2weekd previously) he was so rude. He kept intrupting me whilst I was attempting to explain my symptoms. He then unprofessionally judged and commented on the clinical expertise of his fellow Dr who had previously sent me for tests .. stating “goodness knows why he done that”. He then told me to google what I might have, that he couldn’t help me. After trying to show him hypertension record sheet and pulse rate he said it’s not too bad, as long as your not fainting. Questioning him on my heart and BP along with my obvious paralysis in my right hand, he informed me that I LOOKED fine. He did not conduct one medical examination, no BP test, didn’t listen to my heart, didn’t even look or touch my right side. He has no idea of the NHS Constitutional values and am appalled that people like him give the NHS such a terrible name.
I feel that I was judged and branded as annoying on my record before even sitting down in his office .
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Cannot get an appointment
1hour to pick up the phone n when they do no appointments available. It’s rubbish! No Hub would be helpful.
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Disgusting, so upset
No returned calls, bad decisions, awful awful service and care. Utterly shocking. Cannot get an appointment, no one calls back and being told I don’t need to see a doctor when my blood test results were dangerously low.
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Can never get an appointment
Ring over 50 times to get an appointment and if you are lucky enough to get through usually have 20+ callers in front of you. Also they do not always do repeat prescriptions. [How do you think this service could be improved? – edited by HWE] To be able to make an appointment and to have prescriptions ready when they should be.
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Can't get appointments when needed.
Appointments hard to make. Prescriptions not done correctly due to reception staff not listening or reading notes correctly. Elderly people being left frustrated as letters sent saying appointment not kept for blood test when they didn’t get the letter saying to go. I could go on and on but it isn’t getting me anywhere. Have a better appointment system. Reception staff with better customer skills.
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Cannot get an appointment
Spend ages on hold trying to get an appointment. Cannot keep doing this as I work early mornings as I am a teacher. I live close to the surgery so would like the choice to pop in and make an appointment. Change how we can make an appointment. The new system does NOT work.
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Spent hours calling to make an appointment
Nobody is answering the phone after hours of calling. Just engaged tones on the phone, I live 1 minute from the surgery but am not allowed to make a booking over the counter!!! Am about to pay £85 for a private GP appointment in Colchester. When you get to see a doctor they are good but this is crazy. Nothing is good, the doctor is good but you never get to see him.
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New appointment system is a joke.
80 mins to get a test result, then the problem of another long wait to get an appointment to see a doctor, Nothing was good, go back to booking through the durgery
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complete lack of information
Lack of information to the patients. implementing a new software system so locked down patient access to prescriptions etc without telling the patients. Claiming have written to everyone but letter not received. [What was good about the service? How do you think this service could be improved? – edited by HWE] A receptionist should accept that her knowledge is limited, there was limited patient confidentiality as made to recite the problem but then told that need to see a doctor. I believe they have been told to be vague to avoid confrontation.
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