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

Poolway Medical Centre


Rude practice manager!

Since lockdown it is the practice manager answering the phone not the receptionists. She is rude arrogant and speaks over you. If you work good luck getting an appointment! Also if you need help with transfer for an elderly patient to the practice who is at the end of life, prepare to be insulted and get nowhere. She’s rude and arrogant told me to drive 3 hours away to get my dying fathers medical records from his doctors, knowing full well that they wouldn’t have given them to me. Also told me she wasn’t to know I wasn’t cohearsing him into coming home to be with his family when he passed even though the nurses had called the practice to state the situation. She told me it would take at least 6 weeks to decide whether she would except him as a patient and in that time he probably wouldn’t be here anyway. Her priorities would be her existing patients which clearly they are not. She has no compassion and really should rethink her job position. Another doctor did take on my father that afternoon, we had 3 weeks with him until he passed. The doctors and nurses that know what went on were disgusted and asked if I really wanted them to care for him with such lack of care and compassion. People really need to speak up and make complaints when they are not happy. Just remember she’s the practice manager so any complaints directly in the practice would go to her. Be ready for the lies and excuses. You need to go higher ! This is from a patient who is very concerned about the management of the doctors and worries about the patients who she may put off by her abrupt manor that need help from the Doctor.