June 21, 2014 at 2:18 pm
#4216
Anonymous
Inactive
mainly border of mid-essex and north-essex.
My issue is that having made a decision as to what I feel might be going wrong with a patient’s vision I then have to decide not only how quickly I would like them to be seen, but which hospital (choice of 3, possibly 4 NHS options) and I simply do not have the time to phone round hospitals and find out who wants to see them and when.
When the Mid-Essex Central Referral Service was introduced it seemed a perfect alternative to GP referrals and for a while it did work well but I (and colleagues) are having increasing problems with it