Private health appt - doctor not even there!

Cooper18

arcon5 wrote: »

Your day off is not consequential loss, your additional day off would be. Was they going to have you see a different doctor?

This might be the case if the appointment was for him. But it was for his wife, so he chose to take the time off and go. Unless he acts as a carer for his wife I'm not sure he has any right to complian about loss of earnings. Just my opinion, I don't know for sure.

shaun_from_Africa

cockaleekee wrote: »

As the appt was not for you, you have no right to make a claim.

This may not be correct in this case.
It doesn't make any difference who the appointment was for but the important factor is who were the two parties that the contract was between.

I recently contacted the private dentist that my wife uses and made an appointment for her.
The invoice for the dentistry work is going to be sent to me and I will be paying it so even though my wife is the patient, I am the person that has a contract with the dentist.

Cooper18

Lol! There's an echo in here! And I need to type quicker! :-)

Fire_Fox

[quote=[Deleted User];59448559]Because I know what this forum is like. Perfectly interested in peoples opinion but those who just want to spout off about the evils of private health care then I truly am not interested.

To be honest, the NHS is such a shambles then I'll pay for private healthcare if Iwant because I can. Just think - if I pay then someone else is free to use the nhs appointment that we no longer need.[/QUOTE]

:rotfl: But it's acceptable for you to spout off about the evils of the NHS? It's not the NHS that made you an appointment with a doctor on maternity leave AND showed you to the waiting room, is it? :rotfl:

cockaleekee

shaun_from_Africa wrote: »

This may not be correct in this case.
It doesn't make any difference who the appointment was for but the important factor is who were the two parties that the contract was between.

I recently contacted the private dentist that my wife uses and made an appointment for her.
The invoice for the dentistry work is going to be sent to me and I will be paying it so even though my wife is the patient, I am the person that has a contract with the dentist.

I disagree, as there is no requirement for you to be in attendance for the appt. It is the equivalent of you paying for a holiday for someone, there would be no liability to you for loss of income if the operator failed to provide the holiday (although you would of course be entitled to a refund for the payment made).

bris

There is no consequential loss because you were not the patient your wife was.

Now apart from that this wouldn't have happened if you didn't waste your money on a private doctor, there would have been cover in an NHS practice so she would have been seen.

dalesrider

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Turned up for appointment, showed us to waiting room, sat there for 30 mins. I went back to reception - turns out doctor wasn't even there, she'd been on maternity leave for 7 weeks!
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So the person that showed you into the waiting room was expecting you to wait approx 45 weeks then ??????

Was there no cover for the missing doc then?

Sorry but seems a bit odd that no one mentioned that the doc was not there, or that no one was covering....


Long live the NHS. At least when the consultant is not in attendance, there are their minions to carry on the good fight :T

[Deleted User]

cockaleekee wrote: »

The fact that you have no legal rights in this situation?

OK. Seems pointless to argue semantics. For my name, substitute wife then....

[Deleted User]

pimento wrote: »

How did you make the appointment? Were you referred by your GP? Normally, you would call the consultant's secretary and s/he would make the appointment for you. I assume you didn't book seven weeks ago.

Wife made appt with consultants secretary directly and then asked GP for referral letter.

[Deleted User]

cockaleekee wrote: »

It is not the OP that is seeing the doctor. Unless there is a valid reason why the wife cannot attend alone, he has no involvement in the contractual relationship.

She is too ill to go on her own...