Healthwatch Ealing Patient Experience Report Q4 2021-22

One of our main roles is to gather patient views and experiences from residents. Without knowing what you think of health and social care services we cannot speak up for you! Our online feedback centre allows people to tell us about their experiences of care in our borough. Whilst people can visit our website and provide this feedback independently, our system is backed up by a Patient Experience Officer.

Our Patient Experience Officer and team of volunteers work out in the community everyday, talking to patients and their relatives about experiences of care. This data is input into our feedback centre and reported on quarterly. Having people out in the community everyday helps us understand which services are working well and where improvements are needed. We identify services to watch and themes and trends. This then helps us to work with Ealing Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and Ealing Council in order to share and celebrate good practice, and focus on where improvements are needed.

Key Information

In this quarter, covering January - March 2022, 1217 patient experiences were collected. Of these, 877 positive reviews, 94 neutral reviews, and 246 negative reviews were received this quarter.

Themes 

Negative reviews:

• Patients experience booking appointments, especially through the phones.
• The availability of appointments for patients.
• The waiting time patients experienced at the premises of health services.
• The communication between health services and patients.

Positive reviews:

• The explanation of the treatment patients receive.
• The professionalism of staff patients at health services.
• The effectiveness of care patients had this quarter.
• Information and advice that patients received from health services.