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Originally Posted by Royboy39
Just an aside....my mother in law who is 82 years young and is registered partialy sighted was given an appointment at 6 tonight at RBH.
There was no patient transport at that time and she was advised to get a taxi to attend her appointment.
Luckily my daughter was on hand to take her, I take pity on the poor souls, living alone who are thrown to the wolves and are forced to make their way home at that time of night.
Partialy sighted means ' can't see' and at 82 I think I'ts a nonsense to expect them to book taxis and put the responsibility on the taxi driver to take her home and make sure she or anyone is safely indoors.  |
Quite right your mother-in-law and anybody else asked to attend at silly times should be entitled to patient transport. Not everyone can afford taxis and why should they be expected to pay for them? Appointments are supposed to be made for patient convienience(according to the letter sent out telling you to ring up and book one)