"I really appreciated your help."

About: Southern Health & Social Care Trust / Urgent Care Centre (Phone First)

(as a service user),

Last week I experienced serious chest pains and contacted the ‘Urgent Care – Out of Our Hours Service’ by telephone at 9.30 am. I received a call back from them a few minutes later and was offered an appointment to attend the unit at 10.30 am.

I attended the appointment and had checks and observations, blood tests, ECG and chest X-Ray. Throughout the appointment, all the staff I met (especially Claire) were very friendly, caring, polite and professional and everything was explained to me really clearly. My health checks were all completed by midday.

Later that afternoon I received a telephone call at home from Claire to give me the results of my blood tests and to suggest that I contact my own GP.

Thank you all so much, the Urgent Care Unit in CAH offers a fantastic service and I really appreciated your help.

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Responses

Response from Rebecca Smyth, Nurse Team Lead, Urgent Care, Adult Community Services Directorate, Southern Health and Social Care Trust last month
Rebecca Smyth
Nurse Team Lead, Urgent Care, Adult Community Services Directorate,
Southern Health and Social Care Trust
Submitted on 12/02/2025 at 16:20
Published on Care Opinion at 16:20


Dear Pnh39

Thankyou so much for taking the time to post your feedback on Care Opinion.

I am glad to hear that you were treated promptly in Urgent Care and received the urgent investigations required.

Its lovely to hear that the staff you encountered whilst in Urgent Care were friendly, caring, polite and professional and that everything was explained to you clearly. I will ensure to pass on your kind words to Claire and the rest of the Urgent Care Team.

I wish you all the best in your recovery.

Kind regards

Rebecca Smyth, Nurse Team Lead, Urgent Care.

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