Reviews (23)

Very GPs and reception staff.

March 19, 2024
Reception staff and the GPS are all very rude and communication is very poor. They don't listen to you and they don't engage properly. They never inform you about your blood tests and results. You have to chase it yourself.
Anonymous

Misdiagnosed my daughter several times

December 18, 2023
They have misdiagnosed my daughter a number of times. We are planning to change our GP asap. Also getting an appointment is an uphill task.
Anonymous

Polite and friendly staff

November 29, 2023
Polite and friendly staff. Although some changes to the environment have not been in favour of the audience of patients. Overly persistent of promoting vaccinations even though I had said no.
Tia Spooner

Referred and diagnosed in a timely manner

October 31, 2023
My GP referred me to Sandwell hospital and I was diagnosed with a tumour on my kidney in a timely manner.
Anonymous

Reception are always helpful

October 25, 2023
Very good GP service with excellent staff. Reception team is always very helpful.
Anonymous

Never had any issue

August 30, 2023
Good, never had any issue. Can wait for some time for appointment but it’s what it’s like everywhere.
Anonymous

Battle trying to get answers

August 7, 2023
Shocking, their care is poor in general. Had several bloods taken there, thy said the results came back as slightly out but symptoms have got progressively worse. I've gone back and asked for medical history notes and it says that bloods were abnormal with the words 'Big Alert' written next to them. He has chronic fatigue and no answers. It's taken 8 months to be given supplements for low vitamin D and Folic levels. It's just been a battle going back and forth trying to get answers.
Anonymous

Need to see daughter face to face

December 28, 2022
I find them difficult because you don't get face to face appointments. You become your own GP and self diagnose. I can try and get ab appointment for my daughter who is non communicative, but she needs to see someone face to face so they can physically examine her because she cannot physically tell me what is happening. So they may see her face to face only sometimes, but it's not good.
Anonymous

Medical conversion intervention on teen

December 23, 2022
This was my childhood surgery, and when I was a teenager, the doctors kept asking me about my interest in sex to the degree I felt uncomfortable. Understandably, they didn't know much about asexuality back then, but they pathologised it despite my being content with my sexuality. They then made it the focus of my treatment for an unrelated condition.
This meant my recovery was based on if my sexuality changed, and they would keep bringing up my sexuality, telling me it was a disorder and insisting I needed to want sex.
I find this incredibly invasive and creepy to do to a child. If these doctors had been trained to understand why conversion intervention is wrong by critically analysing it as a practice and expectation, they would have understood it was harmful and unnecessary to do it to me, even if they didn't know of the sexuality.
Furthermore, none of them ever tried to look up my sexuality, they never tried to refer me to sexuality specialists, they never tried to ask me if I wanted to change it. They stripped my autonomy and kept sexualising my appointments as well as shaming a part of myself I was always happy with.
This trauma has severely harmed my relationship with the NHS and to this day I've never been supported in making a complaint, so I pray this review is accepted so I can finally have a voice and warn people of the harm uneducated and dogmatic doctors can do.
They may no longer be at Hawksley, but as this was never caught, never apologised for, and no training was ever given to avoid it happening in the future, I think people should be wary.

2) After attending university for 1 year and then returning, I found 2 years of medical records disappeared. The response of the GP was to blame me for my congenital illnesses, believing the 2 year gap was my choice and ignoring my concerns. After bringing in proof of this issue, I requested an investigation be done to find out why 1 year of my uni GPs records and 1 year of this family GP records went missing on my return. The practise manager took it as a personal complaint and told me she regretted that I 'felt like' my medical records were missing and closed down the claim, never allowing me to find out what happened.
3) They mixed my medical records up with someone else in my family, placed my repeat prescription I'd already been on for months to my mother's record and wiped it off mine.
4) They claimed my mother's heart attacks were a mental condition until the hospital forced them to have training for her condition.
5) A preemptive differential diagnosis was put on record, and hidden from me for years. This diagnosis contributed to the invalidation of my multisystemic conditions, and meant my rare congenital condition with life-threatening symptoms wasn't diagnosed until I saw someone privately.
6) In their efforts to invalidate my health, and their inability to tell family members apart, they wrote a differential diagnosis on a mother's record which contributed to devaluing the risk of her heart attacks and cancer.
7) This medical neglect harmed my health and caused deterioration & long-term complications in myself and my mom. My mom's terminal illness wasn't diagnosed until late as a result; she died shortly after.
These things have contributed to medical trauma.
Anonymous

It’s difficult to see a doctor

November 23, 2022
It’s difficult to see a doctor. I made over 100 calls this morning and then there’s no appointments left. Sometimes they send you to another doctor who doesn’t know you. They said I can go and see them on Monday but my arm is so painful I’m thinking of going to A&E.
Anonymous

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Hawkesley Medical Practice

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0121 486 4200

375 Shannon Road
Kings Norton
Birmingham
West Midlands
B38 9TJ

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