Proof of Appointments

[ShaunOfCalder]

Hi all, the other half has come home from her place of work, and has mentioned to me that earlier today, when she tried to notify her workplace managers, of impending hospital appointments, requiring their attention when planning rota's for the next few months (May/June). She was forced to provide the department manager with copies of the hospital letters for proof of appointments.

This doesn't sit well with me, in a similar situation I'm not sure I would have been so compliant, and would have provided letters as requested but probably with every part except name, appointment date and time blacked out.

Is it reasonable for a manager to request copies of medical appointment letters in this way? Needless to say the appointments could be at clinics relating to damage I may have done to her undercarriage due to me being powerfully built, not sure this is any business of her managers?

[carreauchompeur]

Does she regularly swing the lead?

No, this sounds a bit OTT on the part of the managers.

[ShaunOfCalder]

carreauchompeur said:

Does she regularly swing the lead?

Not at all, however the whole (NHS) department suffers with a high degree of sickness and absence, putting further strain on the remaining staff as they try to fill the void. Lunchbreaks are rare, with clinics that over-run, over-booked and short staffed.

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ShaunOfCalder said:

Is it reasonable for a manager to request copies of medical appointment letters in this way?

Given what's been written on some of my appointment letters, I'd say no. But there may be another way of satisfying what they actually want to know.

[Siscar]

ShaunOfCalder said:

Not at all, however the whole (NHS) department suffers with a high degree of sickness and absence, putting further strain on the remaining staff as they try to fill the void. Lunchbreaks are rare, with clinics that over-run, over-booked and short staffed.

She needs to move to another bit of the NHS. Having recently been a frequent 'customer' it's mind blowing how many people do so little. Sitting in a chair waiting for a blood test while they chat on for ten minutes or more about their star signs, sitting in the pharmacy for an hour waiting for them to dispense something when you can see them doing next to sod all and so on. There are some really good bits, but in so many areas the productivity is awful.