Dr Kat Alcock

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@Sarahlouh1978 @DrEmmaNash Sarah that is awful

@KatClinPsy @DrEmmaNash My husband had a similar experience after kidney surgery, half his kidney removed and no pain relief, I had nothing I could give him, he had been on a pain pump/ push button device until a hour before discharge, luckily our GP we’re amazing but they should not had had to be.

@SianArfonMiners @BanjoBlood16 @DrEmmaNash I’m due for a different surgery soon so this is very helpful information! Thank you

@BanjoBlood16 @SianArfonMiners @DrEmmaNash In this instance, it wasn’t media spin, it was hospital spin! They told me to get painkillers from my GP, and acted as though that was normal procedure. The GP surgery hasn’t responded to the email I sent after surgery, and that was 2 years ago, so 🤷🏻‍♀️

@KatClinPsy @SianArfonMiners @DrEmmaNash Interesting that you don't want to complain because you feel the hospital are under-resourced when primary care gets 10% of the budget for 90% of the patient contacts, yet you complained about something which was not GPs fault. I think the media spin has a lot to answer for here

@maureen_cumming @DrEmmaNash Exactly. I’m still waiting for a response to my complaint almost 2 years later but that’s another story…

@KatClinPsy @DrEmmaNash There in lies the problem. That GP will now have to respond to that complaint within a set time frame which takes up more valuable time and include it in their annual appraisal when the fault lies squarely with the hospital team

@SianArfonMiners @DrEmmaNash Yes, you’re right!

@SianArfonMiners @DrEmmaNash The staff were so incredibly kind, caring & over-stretched that I didn’t want them to be blamed for what, in reality, is a particularly under-resourced area of healthcare. If I thought complaining would help them provide better care via getting more resources that would be diff

@SianArfonMiners @DrEmmaNash I was so hideously and pathetically grateful for finally getting surgery after so much suffering, that I didn’t consider complaining

@DrEmmaNash You’re absolutely right. I made a complaint to the GP because they didn’t respond in a timely way to my frankly desperate need for pain relief, but didn’t complain to the hospital who sent me home with nothing. Buck successfully passed it would seem

@KatClinPsy That’s awful. Shouldn’t have needed to access GP at all if things had been done right.