Right to Respond

As part of our commitment to providing an honest and transparent view of health and social care services, Healthwatch Birmingham encourages providers to respond to comments the public have left.

Alongside ensuring providers can have a fair say in discussions about their services, replying to reviews demonstrates evidence of responding to patient feedback for the CQC, who regularly monitor our Feedback Centre. It is also an effective way to recruit service users for any wider engagement work at your organisation.

Guidelines for provider responses:

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  • Remain professional and treat people’s comments fairly
  • Engage with the content of the review by addressing specific points and avoid cut and pasting a standard response
  • Don’t disclose the service user’s personal details or any potentially identifying information
  • Where appropriate leave organisational contact details e.g PALS or patient engagement teams for people to get further information

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Original feedback for

Laurie Pike Health Centre


Worst surgery to be a patient at

Phones are always busy, no appointments available majority of the time unless you try and book online if any appointments are available or try and speak to the receptionist at the surgery who is able to pre book a call back. Receptionists provide you with incorrect information and when book asthma assessments tend to book it with the wrong professional, which can be very frustrating as you have to take time of work and rebook the appointment. Over 9 weeks pregnant and still not been referred to a midwife despite having tried for the past 2 weeks by speaking to 2 different GPs on the phone and visited a doctor in the surgery who wasn't a gp of Laurie Pike which as a patient I wouldn't have known while booking but still he was unable to refer me. The GP I spoke to on the phone the other day was meant to give me a call back the next day which I never received and a secretary was suppose to give me a call back also regarding my midwife appointment which never happened either. I've had a very bad experience with this surgery and feel very stressed out and worried as I'm not sure if I'll ever be able to have an appointment with a midwife and feel very upset. Stress and worries for a pregnant woman are the last things she needs but duty of care doesn't seem to apply to this surgery!!