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Hospitals: Complaints

Volume 470: debated on Wednesday 23 January 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many complaints were (a) made and (b) upheld (i) at local level and (ii) by the Health Service Commissioner arising from (A) Barnet and Chase Farm Hospital, (B) Royal Free Hospital, (C) Northwick Park Hospital and (D) Barnet Primary Care Trust for (1) each of the last two years and (2) 2007-08 to date; and if he will make a statement. (179058)

The information is not collected in the format requested. The following table shows the number of written complaints about hospital and community services for 2004-05, 2005-06 and 2006-07 for Barnet Primary Care Trust (PCT), Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust, North West London Hospitals NHS Trust and Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust. Information regarding the NHS Ombudsman is not collected centrally.

Local resolution1

Total complaints

Concluded within target

Concluded outside target

Still being pursued

2004-05

Barnet PCT

82

76

6

2

Royal Free NHS Trust

791

462

230

99

North West London Hospitals NHS Trust3

900

509

311

80

Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust

403

262

138

3

2005-06

Barnet PCT

76

63

13

2

Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust

839

421

336

82

North West London Hospitals NHS Trust3

869

265

567

37

Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust

417

268

146

3

2006-07

Barnet PCT

68

63

5

2

Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust

775

392

255

128

North West London Hospitals NHS Trust3

753

482

263

8

Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust

296

206

90

2

1 Up to 2005-06 Hospital and Community Health Services complaints were collected where the local resolution action time limit was 20 working days. In 2006-07 there was a change to the resolution time limit. From 1 April 2006 to 31 August 2006 complaints were collected where the local resolution action time limit was 20 working days and from 1 September 2006 to 31 March 2007 complaints were collected where the local resolution action time limit was 25 working days.

2 Denotes zero.

3 North West London Hospitals NHS Trust includes Northwick Park Hospital.

Note:

Data collected at trust level only.

Source:

The Information Centre for health and social care, Workforce and Community Health Statistics—dataset KO41a