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Original feedback for

Ipswich Hospital (Part of the East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust)


Impossible to elicit response from Paeds

GP spent a whole afternoon trying to bleep our consultant and then call her secretary, then sent a fax for an "urgent response" - supposedly within 3 working days. So far, three weeks on, no call back. Eventually another, sooner outpatient appointment arrived in the post which is useful, but not on its own an appropriate response. Experience on the ward is awful, it's old and decrepit, and the bathrooms downright dangerous. They don't offer food for my allergic child either.