About the Service
Our Health Complaints Advocacy team can help anyone over the age of 11 who feels they have not had the service that they expected from the NHS and want to complain, using the NHS complaints process.
This involves providing information so you can pursue a complaint by yourself or giving you the support of an advocate who can help you to make your complaint.
What Does the Service Do
Our Health Complaints Advocates can help you to know your rights, by providing you with information about how the NHS complaints process works and what you can expect to achieve from making a complaint.
They can also help you feel more confident to make a complaint yourself which says what your feelings are about your NHS care and achieve your goals.
They can help you to make decisions about how you want to be supported to make a health complaint and about what you want to do next in the NHS complaints process. Our advocates will listen to your needs and make sure that the complaints process works for you.
Why might I want to complain and use an advocate to help me?
Young Persons Advocacy for Health Complaints can be useful because you had a negative experience, confidential information was shared about you, you needed more information to make an informed choice, or you didn’t get to have a say in a change to a service, amongst lots of other reasons.
A Health Complaints Advocate can help you to voice your concerns about your health care heard directly to your care provider rather than through a parent/carer.
Throughout the complaints process, an advocate might help you to write complaint letters to the right people, prepare you for meetings and, if necessary, go to these with you, and help you to check on the progress of your complaint with the organisation you complained about.
Self Help Information
If you want more information on making an NHS complaint with the support of an advocate as a young person, watch our video or please do not hesitate to contact us on 0113 244 0606 or at [email protected].