Posted by Tony Morgan on 07/06/06 23:24

In message <lurqa2l76rcc2v6p3ga5593ikr6quss5pm@4ax.com>, Laurence Payne
<lpayne1NOSPAM@dslDOTpipexDOTcom.?.invalid> writes
>>We then sent a letter to the Luton & Dunstable Hospital Trust,
>>complaining about the treatment that she had received following her
>>accident. After two months of silence, my wife's GP received a letter
>>saying that the L&D could no longer accept referrals for any diagnosis
>>or treatment of my wife.
>
>Because you'd written a (doubtless calm and well-reasoned) letter of
>complaint? Or because having removed this treatment to the private
>sector, they felt that (excepting acute complications, which the NHS
>tends to deal with very well) it should stay there?
>
>Were you ASKING to be referred back to the NHS?

Before we went private - yes. Obviously getting a referral back to the
NHS AFTER private diagnosis/surgery/treatment/physiotherapy wasn't
appropriate.

The letter to her GP wasn't in response to a referral - simply a
response (after two months silence) to the complaint - which I should
add was couched in reasonable, polite language.

Interestingly, when notifying my wife of the letter, my wife's GP
observed that he "wouldn't by choice refer any of his patients to the
L&D". The L&D did have a pretty poor reputation, with the exception of
it's cardiac unit.
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Tony Morgan
http://www.camcord.info

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