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Comments
Barry Stone
Thank you very much for your feedback with regards to on-ine appointment booking
It usually works very well, but there are a few things which can present a problem. The best thing to do is contact our senior receptionist Ms Natacha Khan, which can go through the process with you over the phone, or she would be happy for you to come in to the surgery and go through the process with you in front of a computer, in person.
Best Wishes
Dr Mehul Lakhani
I just wanted to say thank you again for the excellent service from your GP Surgery.
As mentioned, I always try to book with my doctors in Wembley Area where I live but they are always busy and for emergencies like yesterday, I prefer to travel from Wembley to Pinner and wait to see a GP at your surgery.
As you can see from your records, I have been to your GP on many occasions.
I have already mentioned on nearly every occasion that your GP should be used as a centre of excellence for other GP’s.
Regards,
HC
I am very sorry to hear of your experience.
Our appointment system has changed recently. If you feel that your health issue needs to be be seen on the day, you will be offered an emergency appointment for that day. We try to see everyone as quickly as possible, but as you can imagine there is sometimes a wait. Our staff will always warn you of this wait prior to you being given an emergency appointment.
Our clinical staff will usually see children as a priority. Perhaps the mother was told that she may have a wait, however our clinicians monitor the list of waiting patients constantly, and will of course see unwell children quickly, and ensure that they do not wait two hours to be seen.
We are investing in new touch-screen check in terminals in the near future, so hopefully this will help with the queues in the reception area.
Best Wishes
Dr Mehul Lakhani
mehul.lakhani
I have looked into this matter - the cables for the wifi were behind a cupboard, and kept getting pulled out of the wall. I have fixed this, so hopefully it shouldnt happen again.
If the wi-fi is not working please let the reception team know.
R
Mehul
Best Wishes
Dr Mehul Lakhani
Another small point - much of the writing on the pages is grey rather than black, which makes it difficult to read. Could you please make all the writing black?
Finally, it's good to see technology being exploited to improve efficiency. It's really useful (to me, at any rate) to get a text reminder on my phone of a forthcoming appointment, and what would be even more welcome would be a text message when a repeat prescription is ready for collection. If this could be arranged without involving the doctor writing the prescription in any significant additional work, it would be much appreciated.
In addition to that, this information would be very helpful indeed when deciding how much time I need to pay for in the car park.