If you have a general enquiry or would like advice from us, please email us at nelondonicb.enquiries@nhs.net
When you email us, please do not send any personal information (i.e. date of birth or hospital number).
For information on how to make a complaint, please read the information below before contacting us.
It’s really valuable when you leave feedback about your experience of health care services.
This helps us, and our providers, to ensure that you are receiving a quality service and helps us to improve the care that patients receive in the future.
You can leave feedback by reviewing a service on the NHS Choices website. Simply search for the provider and click ‘Leave review’.
This is an open website, so other people will be able to see your feedback. If you have a complaint, or you need to leave any personal information, you should contact the relevant Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS) instead.
Everyone has the right to provide feedback, comments or to make a complaint about health services.
Telling us your views, whether it be a comment, compliment or a complaint, helps us to know what we are doing well, learn lessons from mistakes, and prevent them happening to anyone else.
Who you need to contact about your complaint will depend on which service you want to complain about. If you are unhappy with the service provided, all NHS services have their own complaints teams who you can contact. To resolve matters quickly, you should raise concerns with the healthcare provider directly.
Find out more information below.
You can make a complaint in writing, by email, over the telephone or in person. Your complaint should be made as soon as possible. This should be within a year of the event. You can make a complaint on your own or on behalf of someone else if you have their permission.
Full details of how to make a complaint can be found here.
There are two ways you can make a complaint:
If you want to contact us to make a complaint, you can do this by:
All services providing NHS care have a way of receiving comments and complaints about their services.
If you have a comment or complaint about a hospital, mental health, community or other NHS service, you need to raise this through that organisation’s comments and complaints system.
The responsibility for investigating any issue arising from a complaint remains with the organisation that provided the service to you.
Please do be aware that if you have already complained to your healthcare provider, we will not be able to re-investigate the same concerns.
Please click on the relevant link below to see their contact details:
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust (BHRUT) for:
Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust for:
All services providing NHS care have a way of receiving comments and complaints about their services.
If you have a comment or complaint about a hospital, mental health, community or other NHS service, you need to raise this through that organisation’s comments and complaints system.
The responsibility for investigating any issue arising from a complaint remains with the organisation that provided the service to you.
Please do be aware that if you have already complained to your healthcare provider, we will not be able to re-investigate the same concerns.
Please click on the relevant link below to see their contact details:
London Ambulance Service runs the NHS 111 Integrated Urgent Care Clinical Assessment Service for Barking and Dagenham, City of London, Hackney, Havering, Newham, Redbridge, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest.
For any feedback or complaints please contact them using the following details:
Please do be aware that if you have already complained to your healthcare provider, we will not be able to re-investigate the same concerns.
If you feel that you need support to raise your concern or complaint with us, you can seek support as follows:
Barking and Dagenham:
An organisation called Cambridge House can provide you with independent advocacy. You can contact them by calling 020 7358 7007 (Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm) or emailing chadvocacy@ch1889.org
City of London, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest:
An organisation called POhWER can provide you with free support and advocacy. You can contact their Help Hub Monday to Friday 8am to 6pm by:
Email: pohwer@pohwer.net
Telephone: 0300 456 2370 (charged at your standard network rate)
Text: send the word ’pohwer’ with your name and number to 81025
Hackney:
The Hackney advocacy service provides advocacy support. Contact them by calling 0300 7900 559, emailing Hackneyadvocacy@rethink.org or making an online referral.
Havering:
Mind provides a free Integrated Advocacy Service for Havering residents. You can contact them by phone 01708 560 660 / 020 7510 1081 or email Havering.advocacy@mindthnr.org.uk
Newham:
Newham Healthwatch provides an NHS Complaints Advocacy Service. It is a free and independent service for Newham residents that can help you make a complaint about an NHS service.
The service is delivered by Mind in Tower Hamlets and Newham on behalf of Healthwatch Newham. You can contact them by phone 020 3828 8245 or email advocacy@healthwatchnewham.co.uk
VoiceAbility also provide free advocacy services in Newham. You can contact them by phone 0300 303 1660 (open Monday to Friday: 9am-5pm) or email helpline@voiceability.org
Redbridge:
An organisation called VoiceAbility can provide you with free and independent support and advocacy. You can contact their helpline number on: 0300 303 1660 (open Monday to Friday: 9am-5pm) or email helpline@voiceability.org
Once we have received your complaint, an investigation will start. We will try and resolve all complaints at the earliest opportunity.
If we need more information about what you are complaining about, the investigator may contact you to discuss your complaint in more detail and agree a date in which we will respond by.
Once the investigation is complete, any necessary action identified will be taken to ensure the issues are addressed.
Your right to confidentiality will be respected throughout the investigation however we may need to share information regarding your case with a third party within the NHS. We will require your consent in order to do this. It may therefore, be useful when making your complaint to include your consent.
There may be times when we need to share information without your consent, for example to protect children and vulnerable adults.
Below are two examples of how you could provide consent. The first is for NHS North East London Integrated Care Board to share your complaint if we need to liaise with other NHS organisations.
The second is when a complaint is made on behalf of someone else. If you are complaining on behalf of someone else, we will need their written or verbal consent to proceed with the complaint.
If you are unhappy with the response to your complaint, you should contact the service directly to see if they can look into the case further. You also have the right to take your complaint to the Health Service Ombudsman. The Ombudsman is independent of both the NHS and the Government and will decide if your complaint should be investigated further. The service is free for everyone. To take a complaint to the Ombudsman, go to www.ombudsman.org.uk/making-complaint or call 0345 015 4033. You will need to contact the Ombudsman within 12 months of receiving a final response. You can find out more information on the Ombudsman’s website www.ombudsman.org.uk
You can contact their helpline on 0345 015 4033 or phso.enquiries@ombudsman.org.uk
You can write to the Ombudsman at: The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman, Millbank Tower, Millbank, London SW1P 4QP
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