Meon Health Practice
102 Highlands Road, Fareham, Hampshire, PO15 6JFContact details and opening times
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Review titled Good service
Rated 4 stars out of 5
by Louise Case - Posted on 03 July 2024
I rung the surgery at 8am saw a dr at 10am and was in QA awaiting surgery by 12 and in surgery by 7pm having my appendix out. Thank you to the Dr I saw who was so kind and responsive to my needs. Thank you.
Visited July 2024
Review titled Meon Health Practice
Replied on 04 July 2024
Dear Louise, Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback of your recent experience with us. All feedback we received helps us to understand what we are doing right and where we can look to improve. We are so pleased to read your comments of this good service starting from ringing us at 8am, being seen by the kind and responsive doctor at 10am and leading to your speedy surgery at QAH that evening. We really appreciate your thanks to our doctor who helped you get such a swift treatment plan and have passed your kind words onto our team, and we wish you well on your recovery. All our staff work to their absolute best every day to deliver this standard of experience for all our patients and feedback like this is so welcomed and well received by all of us. Thank you again for contacting us, and for being a part of our Practice. Kind regards, James Leach Digital Transformation and Data Manager
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Review titled 2 emergency prescriptions issued and dispensed very quickly
Rated 5 stars out of 5
by Elizabeth Slater - Posted on 09 July 2024
I am a ruptured achilles and have undergone surgery privately. I have since got blood blots and the private prescription issued for anti coagulants does not exist in the dose written. I took it to Whiteley surgery where I filled in an e-consult form requesting the correct dose. The receptionist photocopied the original prescription and submitted my econsult as urgent. Within half an hour i had a text to inform me that the prescription had been sent to my pharmacy. I was so impressed as I wasn't even sure if this is something they would help me with. It was an emergency 5 day dose so I returned on Monday 9th July to request another 5 days (as I will be put on to tablet form after that time) and again, within the same day the pharmacy had received my prescription. I want to say a huge thank you to the doctor(s) who actioned this for me and to the receptionists at Whiteley who were so understanding and helpful.
Visited July 2024
Review titled Meon Health Practice
Replied on 09 July 2024
Dear Elizabeth Slater, Thank you for taking the time to share your thanks and feedback with us in this five-star rating and review. We are so pleased to read of the speedy actions from our team with your recent urgent prescriptions. We really appreciate your thanks to the doctors and reception staff at Whiteley for being understanding, helpful, and dispensing your medications to the pharmacy, and we have passed your thanks kind words onto our staff. All our team work incredibly hard every day to deliver a high standard of care and experience for our patients and feedback like this is not only so motivational for all of us but also helps us to understand what we are doing right. We wish you well on your recovery from the recent surgery and thank you again for contacting us, and for being a part of our Practice. Kind regards, James Leach Digital Transformation and Data Manager
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Review titled Excellent service very helpful receptionist
Rated 5 stars out of 5
by Kim - Posted on 09 July 2024
Called in today to get a problem sorted about some recent tests, the lady on reception was extremely helpful called me back within 30mins to say the Dr would call this afternoon, dr called problem sorted very satisfied. I've been at meon for a number of years and I can honestly say they have always been respectful and helpful
Visited July 2024
Review titled Meon Health Practice
Replied on 10 July 2024
Dear Kim, Thank you for taking the time to share your recent experience with us and providing this five-star rating and review. We are so pleased to read your feedback of how we helped you with such excellent service regarding a problem with your test results. It’s lovely to read you found our receptionist extremely helpful, and you were very satisfied with the support offered by our doctor for the problems you discussed. We are also delighted to see you have been a patient of ours for many years, and your honest assessment of how helpful and respectful our team always are to you as our patient. We truly appreciate your kind words and have passed these onto our team as a very welcomed acknowledgement for their efforts. All our staff work incredibly hard every day to deliver this standard to all our patients and feedback like this is always so well received by all of us. Thank you again for contacting us, and for being a part of our Practice. Kind regards, James Leach Digital Transformation and Data Manager
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Review titled Great Experience Today
Rated 4 stars out of 5
by Cat - Posted on 06 June 2024
Our 2 year old was unwell and we were seen by a nurse at Highlands Surgery. The nurse was very welcoming and made our child feel at ease. We usually get a lot of tears and our child becomes very stressed. Instead of just ignoring the distress, the nurse spent a little time asking friendly questions and even checked me as well as a way of showing that the examination wasn't anything to be scared of. We're really happy and appreciative of how it was handled and happy with the diagnosis/help suggested. It made a big difference for us as parents and our child, so thank you.
Visited June 2024
Review titled Meon Health Practice
Replied on 06 June 2024
Dear Cat, Many thanks for taking your time to share this review and thanks to the Practice for your recent experience with our nurse at our Highlands site. Your feedback helps us understand what we are doing right, and where we can make improvements, and we are so pleased to see our Nurse could support you with such welcoming care in the appointment for your child in what can be a distressing experience for children. We are so pleased to see our Nurse spent the extra time and care needed to reassure your child and yourself during this appointment and thank you for sharing your kind words this service made for you all and we will be sure to share this with our staff. We are all working very hard every day to deliver this level of care for our patients and feedback like this is so motivational and will be truly welcomed and heartfelt by the team. Once again, thank you contacting us and being part of our practice. Kind regards, James Leach Patient Services Manager
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Review titled Awful
by Anonymous - Posted on 13 June 2024
90 days for an doctors note is absolutely appalling? Are we supposed to be psychic? 3 whole months. Ive suffered because of their incompetence. Utterly appalling. My mental health has declined as a result of their absolute incompetence. They lied to me by saying i would have it by a certain date and mark it as urgent , however that was not the case. Nothing was done. Ironically it was for mental health, these people dont care about mental health or how they've made it irreparably worse. Awful and incompetent surgery. Nothing can be done now and they dont care. Dreadful service, i wish i was with another surgery that actually cares.
Visited June 2024
Review titled Meon Health Practice
Replied on 20 June 2024
Dear Patient, Many thanks for taking the time to provide your feedback regarding the process time taken for a doctor’s note and our communication to you for this request. As your feedback is anonymous we cannot directly respond to the context of your request but if you would like clarity over the time we require to process a vast array of administrative requests, this information should be available on our website: https://www.meonhealthpractice.co.uk/practice-information/administrative-office/ Generally speaking, we receive a large variation of admin requests which may or may not require clinical time or extensive administration time (pending the context for the request) and some of these requests can take up to 90 days. There are also many types of requests that we process faster than this ‘up to 90 day’ timeline, but without clarity of the request you have submitted to us, we cannot address this more specifically if there has been any miscommunication or errors on our part. The time we require should be correctly relayed to the person submitting the request at the time of contact, and we apologise if there was any miscommunication or misunderstanding for your request as you have described. We are also sorry you feel we had a negative impact on your mental health in the handling of this request and would like to reassure you we do care about mental health concerns, and we treat these concerns with the utmost seriousness. If you are experiencing any concerns with your mental health, we trust you have been consulted appropriately by our clinical teams. If you require clinical care for these, please get in touch with the surgery to seek the appropriate support. As your feedback is anonymous, we cannot investigate this directly. If you wish for us to respond to you more formally, please contact the surgery by the following methods: 1. Completing a formal Complaints Form, available from our surgery receptions. 2. By letter to: Complaints Team, Meon Health Practice, 102 Highlands Road, Fareham, PO15 6JF 3. By telephone - 01329 845 777 Thank you again for taking the time to share your feedback and we are sorry we have not met your expectations. We believe this will help us to deliver an improved service in future. Kind regards, James Leach Patient Services Manager
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Review titled Brilliant
Rated 5 stars out of 5
by Debbie - Posted on 20 June 2024
Submitted Anime at 8.00 received call at 8.20 asking to come in for face to face appointment at 9.30
Visited June 2024
Review titled Meon Health Practice
Replied on 25 June 2024
Dear Debbie, Thank you for taking the time to share this five star review regarding the brilliant actions and service from our team in response to your recent anima request. All feedback helps understand what we are doing right and where we can improve. We are so pleased to receive your appreciation of your anima appointment request being triaged by our clinician to request a face-to-face appointment to be arranged by the admin team which was confirmed with you all within just 90 minutes. All our staff work so hard every day to deliver this level of experience for our patients and feedback like this really helps motivate all of us. We have shared your kind words with our staff and thank you again for contacting us. Kind regards, James Leach Patient Services Manager
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Review titled The Booking system at Meon Health does Not Work.
Rated 1 star out of 5
by Anonymous - Posted on 03 May 2024
I have been unable to get a GP appointment or put in a medical request online, I have been trying for 3 weeks by phone and via anima. Now I will have to resort to buying medication online. My complaint is no reflection on the staff at meon health but the booking system is not fit for purpose. Also at what point does a routine appointment become an emergency! Please whoever is responsible for this system change it so future appointments can booked or at the very least more online medical reviews can be dealt with.
Visited May 2024
Review titled Meon Health Practice
Replied on 07 May 2024
Dear Patient, Many thanks for taking your time to provide this feedback with frustrations of our current booking systems for what is considered a routine GP appointment and we are very sorry to read we have not met your expectations as our patient. We are working very hard to offer as many appointments as we can but we, like all GP surgeries nationally, do not have the clinical capacity to see everyone when they would like to be seen. Last month (April) the Practice held over 17,600 consultations with 1 in 40 being missed, at an average of more than 100 appointments each week, totalling to over 110 hours of wasted clinical time, and over 4,200 of these were arranged through our daily GP-led triage process. Included in this were over 1,000 routine GP appointments and over 9,100 face-to-face appointments were booked. This is in addition to all administrative clinical work (e.g., prescriptions, test results, requests from Hospitals and other patient queries). We ask all patients to advise us if they are not able to attend an appointment as this allows us to offer that appointment to another patient but unfortunately this does not always happen. It is also important to highlight our clinical staff can be required to work beyond the recommended levels to meet patient demand, and we must consider their health and well-being, as well as that of our patients. To reassure you of processes and improvements made, our 2023 appointment data shows this triage system increased access by more than 2,200 consultations, more than doubled face-to-face appointments, and increased routine access compared to the 2022 data. As part of our ongoing commitment to improving our services, we introduced a new website with better digital access using an online consultation system called ‘anima’ in February ’24. Please be aware while anima will improve online access for those who can use the internet, and also improve how to contact us for patients who cannot use the internet as telephone and in person contacts should become easier, anima is not increasing our clinical staffing. If you wish for us to investigate any of your individual experiences and respond to you directly, please do get in contact with the surgery by any of the following methods: 1. Completing a formal Complaints Form, available from our surgery receptions. 2. By letter to: Complaints Team, Meon Health Practice, 102 Highlands Road, Fareham, PO15 6JF 3. By telephone - 01329 845 777 Thank you again for taking your time to share your feedback and we are sorry we have not met your expectations. We believe this will help us to deliver an improved service in future. Kind regards, James Leach Patient Services Manager
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Review titled Phone communication
Rated 4 stars out of 5
by Anonymous - Posted on 03 May 2024
After 33 minutes of being in the call queue from c. 3:30pm, my GP completed my repeat prescription request online via the NHS app (which I kept checking whilst in the queue). I apologise if my hanging up counts as a 'missed call' for the admin team. Unfortunately all the advice on the website (Meon, Anima and NHS app) says to call the surgery which must result in increased call traffic.
Visited May 2024
Review titled Meon Health Practice
Replied on 07 May 2024
Dear Patient, Thank you for taking your time to contact the Practice to share your positive feedback regarding the speedy resolution offered by our GP with your recent prescription request sent using the NHS App. Your feedback of this request helps us understand what we are doing right, such as encouraging the NHS App for prescriptions as this is the quickest, safety, and easiest way to request repeat medication, and where we can make improvements, including review of our communications on our new website and new online communication system ‘anima’. We are delighted to hear that you had this positive experience with us in your recent contact and will ensure this is shared with our staff. Positive experiences like this really motivate our team who are doing their best every day in an increasingly difficult environment. Once again, thank you contacting us and being part of our practice. Kind regards, James Leach Patient Services Manager
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Review titled Disappointing
Rated 1 star out of 5
by Anonymous - Posted on 30 May 2024
Tried to use Anima first (first time using it) extremely limited options for booking an appointment which had no relevance to why I was trying to make an appointment and no 'other' option. So tried the phone line at 8.07am to be told all the appointments for the day had been taken! The phone line only opened at 8am! Now I have to repeat the process for days on end in order to get an appointment for my daughter. Just a ridulous state of affairs
Visited May 2024
Review titled Meon Health Practice
Replied on 30 May 2024
Dear Patient, Many thanks for taking your time to provide this feedback with disappointment of our options for booking appointments and we are sorry we have not met your expectations as our patient. At the time of your contact we are working through increased pressures due to the Bank Holiday week which has meant we are shorter on appointments than usual. For important context to the service we offer, last month (April) the Practice held over 17,600 consultations with 1 in 40 being missed, at an average of more than 100 appointments each week. Included in this were over 1,000 routine GP appointments, over 9,100 face-to-face appointments were booked and over 4,200 of these were arranged through our daily GP-led triage process. This is in addition to all administrative clinical work completed by the team (e.g., prescriptions, test results, requests from Hospitals and other patient queries). It is also important to highlight our staff can be required to work beyond the recommended levels to meet demand, and we must consider their health and well-being, as well our patients. To reassure you of our services, our ‘23 appointment data shows our triage system increased access by more than 2,200 consultations, more than doubled face-to-face appointments, and increased routine access compared to the ‘22 data. As part of our ongoing commitment to improve access and how to contact us, we introduced the online consultation system ‘anima’ which you refer to in February ‘24. Please be aware while anima will improve how to contact us, anima is not increasing our clinical staffing. To reassure you anima is helping us improve, since we released anima in February, we have received over 1,700 medical (appointment) requests and over 5,300 total requests (medical and admin) submitted online by patients who may not have been able to contact us before this third option. As your feedback in anonymous we cannot be more specific to your contact. If you wish for us to respond to you directly, please contact the surgery by the following methods: 1. Completing a formal Complaints Form, available from our surgery receptions. 2. By letter to: Complaints Team, Meon Health Practice, 102 Highlands Road, Fareham, PO15 6JF 3. By telephone - 01329 845 777 Thank you again for taking your time to share your feedback and we are sorry we have not met your expectations. We believe this will help us to deliver an improved service in future. Kind regards, James Leach Patient Services Manager
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Review titled Wonderful care
Rated 5 stars out of 5
by Jane - Posted on 30 May 2024
We cannot thank all the team at Highlands Practice enough for their excellent and expert care for our husband/Dad especially in his final weeks, days and hours. This even extended to the hours after he had died at home and the days before we were able to obtain his Death Certificate. Everyone gave us the time we needed and was understanding and helpful for even the smallest query. We really have experienced the NHS at its best. Thank you to each and every one from District Nurses to Doctors, Extended Primary Care Team, Paramedics, the Pharmacy Team, Receptionists ... apologies if I've left anyone out - we're enormously grateful to you all!
Visited May 2024
Review titled Meon Health Practice
Replied on 30 May 2024
Dear Jane, Thank you for taking your time to share your five-star rating and thanks to the Practice for your recent experience with our staff and services. Your feedback helps us understand what we are doing right, and where we can make improvements, and we are so pleased to see we could support you with such wonderful care offered for you, your dad, and family, particularly at such a sensitive time. We would like to express our sincere condolences to you and your family at this time and thank you for sharing your kind words which we will share with our staff. Delivering this level of care for our patients is what we strive for and feedback like this will be truly welcomed and heartfelt by the team. Once again, thank you contacting us and being part of our practice, and we offer our deepest sympathy to your family. If there is anything else we can do to help, please do not hesitate to contact us. Kind regards, James Leach Patient Services Manager