Could you not have left your email address for him, then when he
emails you all you need to do is reply?
Cheers, Geoff
On 10 May 2013 18:29, Sandra Pickering <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Do let me know if it works :)
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> From: GP-UK [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Robert Treharne Jones
> Sent: 10 May 2013 14:10
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> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Releasing email addresses
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> Love it!
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> Robert
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> From: GP-UK [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Sandra Pickering
> Sent: 10 May 2013 14:04
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Releasing email addresses
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> Set up a gmail address on behalf of the relevant doctor.
>
> Send your email to it.
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> Call the surgery and leave a message for him with his new email address and
> password telling him there’s an important message in his inbox.
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>
>
> Sandra
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> From: GP-UK [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Robert Treharne Jones
> Sent: 10 May 2013 13:58
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Releasing email addresses
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> I Googled the surgery and there is no email address listed
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> I no longer have access to NHS.net
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> Any more ideas?
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> Robert
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> From: GP-UK [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Markwick Christopher
> (NHS MEDWAY CCG)
> Sent: 10 May 2013 12:59
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Releasing email addresses
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> Perhaps google surgery website address & see if a generic email there? nhs
> net directory also searchable.
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> I get around 50 emails an hour to my nhs net email as it is but I am
> available to patients through the practice email address.
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> Cheers,
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> Chris Markwick
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>
> ________________________________
>
> From: GP-UK [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Robert Treharne Jones
> [[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 10 May 2013 12:03
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Releasing email addresses
>
> <RANT>
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>
> Why are GPs’ email addresses not more freely available? Are reception staff
> instructed not to hand them out, or do they not know the address, or whom to
> ring for the information, or none of the above?
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>
> Ok, it’s a while since I was a real GP, but my addresses were freely
> available to anyone that asked, and still are, but the lack of availability
> of email is still a real pain.
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>
> I’ve been asked to call a GP on Monday, because he doesn’t work on Fridays.
> I know what will happen – I’ll ring him and he's with patients, he’ll call
> back and I'll be out-of-range, I’ll call him back and he'll be out on
> visits, so he’ll ring back and I'll be in a meeting.
>
>
>
> So I just rang his surgery and asked for his email address.
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> "We don't normally give out email addresses - can't you call him on Monday?"
> asks the receptionist.
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> I explain that I’m trying to be pro-active, that I know what I want to
> explain, so I’m planning to write an email which he can absorb at leisure
> and we can discuss later in the week.
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> "I'll pass you to the secretaries upstairs" she says, and the call went
> straight to Voicemail.
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> I left a message asking for a call back and that was three hours ago
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> </RANT>
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> Grrrrrrr!
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>
>
> Robert
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