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Your Appropriate To Complain To A Hospital.

The NHS Constitution provides you with a proper to complain for treatment you have received or been refused and to receive a full and prompt reply to your complaint.

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You have the appropriate to:

* Have a complaint dealt with efficiently and have it properly investigated

* Know the outcome of any investigation into the complaint’

* Take your complaint to the independent Parliarmentary and Health Service Ombudsman if you are not satisfied with the way the NHS has dealt with your complaint

* Make a claim for judicial review if you think you have been directly affected by an unlawful act or choice of an NHS body, and

* Receive compensation where you have been harmed.

How To Raise A Hospital Complaint.

When making a complaint, the nature of your complaint will differ depending on your current position (i.e. regardless of whether you are in hospital or whether you have been discharged). We will look at each of these in turn.

Process For Patients Still In Hospital (informal complaint).

If you are still in hospital and wish to make a complaint, you should ask to speak to the Consultant in charge of your care. You need to make sure that the Consultant understands that you are making a formal complaint and that you are expecting him to present you with answers to your complaint. If the Consultant fails to look into the matter, or does not take you seriously, or investigates but does not supply you with a sufficient response, you need to make a complaint to the hospital complaints manager following the Local Resolution Complaints Procedure below.

Local Resolution Hospital Complaints Process.

If you have received treatment (or believe that you ought to have received treatment when you did not) then you need to make your complaint to the hospital, general practitioner or other treatment provider in question. You want to request the hospital complaints process (each hospital will have 1) so that you can discover the correct process to follow for the hospital in question.

This will normally involve you raising your complaint (orally or in writing) and the hospital investigating it and sending a reply to you. You might be asked to attend a meeting to discuss your complaint. Once the hospital has investigated it they will supply you with a full response to your complaint. For a lot of folks this is satisfactory, however, for those that have suffered a serious injury they are far more likely to want to take the matter further.

Support With Your Complaint.

You can seek assistance or advice from the Patient Guidance and Liaison Service (PALS) that are located in each hospital, but they can not raise your complaint for you. Alternatively you can ask your local Independent Complaints Advocacy Service (ICAS) for guidance and support.

Time Limit For Local Resolution Complaints.

You need to raise the complaint within 12 months of the treatment (or lack of treatment) though this can be extended by the hospital in question. It is sensible to raise the matter as soon as feasible.

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Not Satisfied With Local Resolution Complaint?

If the Local Resolution Hospital Complaints Procedure has not provided you with a satisfactory response you can ask for a review by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO). You can only refer the matter to PHSO if you have raised a complaint with your GP or Hospital and received a full response to your complaint. If this has happened, then the PHSO can provide you with a form to complete to raise your complaint with them.

Medical Negligence Claim.

Once you have been by way of the complaints procedure, if you think you still have a claim for medical negligence you ought to seek expert help from a specialist medical negligence solicitor. They will review all of the info that you have obtained and advise you whether you can make a claim for compensation and advise you of the likely prospects of success.

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