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:

  • Keep language appropriate and civil
  • 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

Remember: your response will be seen by everyone who uses the Feedback Centre, not just the original reviewer. All responses are moderated in accordance with our moderation policy.

For full terms and conditions, including a guide to how right to reply works for service providers download this guide.

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Original feedback for

Laurie Pike Health Centre


Unable to have a consultation for weeks

Unable to have a consultation for weeks as you can never get through via phone a new econsult has been available but hours shortened cannot always access and generalised multiple choice questions if your symptoms are not included cannot go further with request. Gp’s are inconsistent with consultant advice and totally contradict it with their own opinions I.e if a consult has advised use of a certain medication to control a condition they are not repeat prescribing as they feel it is not appropriate this leaves patients very confused. Staff who eventually answer phones are not very knowledgable on processes and are very much like robots. My issue was not severe however I would imagine many patients would of received a worse service. I have knowledge of the system so did manage to get a consultation.