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Farrow Medical Practice

177 Otley Road
Bradford
BD3 0HX

Telephone: 01274 637031

Out of Hours: 111

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Opening Times

Monday8:00am to 6:30pm
Tuesday8:00am to 6:30pm
Wednesday8:00am to 6:30pm
Thursday8:00am to 6:30pm
Friday8:00am to 6:30pm
SaturdayClosed
SundayClosed

If you need help when we are closed

If you need medical help now, use NHS 111 online or call 111.

NHS 111 online is for people aged 5 and over. Call 111 if you need help for a child under 5.

Call 999 in a medical or mental health emergency. This is when someone is seriously ill or injured and their life is at risk.

Physical accessibility

The Practice premises complies with current regulations for disabled access but please ask for help if you have any problems.

  • Disabled parking
  • Disabled WC
  • Signing service available
  • Step free access
  • Wheelchair access

Parking

  • Car Parking
  • Cycle parking
  • Disabled parking

Accessible Information Standard

The Accessible Information Standard aims to make sure that people with disability, impairment or sensory loss are given information they can easily read or understand.

Inform practice staff if you have any communication support needs

We will:

  • Record you accessibility needs on your medical records
  • Try to make sure you can understand the information we send you

Let us know if:

  • you find it hard to read our letters or text messages
  • lip read, use a hearing aid or a communication tool
  • you need braille, large print or easy read
  • you need a sign language interpreter
  • you need an interpreter
  • you need an advocate

How to make a complaint

Most problems can be sorted out quickly and easily with the person concerned, often at the time they arise, and this may be the approach you try first.

Where you are not able to resolve your complaint in this way and wish to make a formal complaint you should do so, preferably in writing as soon as possible after the event and ideally within a few days. Give as much detail as possible as this helps us to establish what happened more easily. In any event, this should be:

  • Within 12 months of the incident,
  • or within 12 months of you becoming aware of the matter

If you are a registered patient you can complain about your own care. You are not normally able to complain about someone else’s treatment without their written permission. See the separate section for what to do in this case.

We are able to provide you with a separate complaints form to register your complaint and this includes a third-party authority form to enable a complaint to be made by someone else. Please ask at reception for this. You can provide this in your own format providing it covers all of the necessary aspects.

Send your written complaint to Farrow Medical Practice marked for the attention of:

The Practice Complaints Manager

What We Do Next

We aim to settle complaints as soon as possible.

We will usually acknowledge receipt within three working days. We aim to resolve the matter as soon as possible but will give you some idea of how long that may take at the outset. You will then receive a formal reply in writing, or you may be invited to meet with the person(s) concerned to attempt to resolve the issue. If the matter is likely to take longer than this we will let you know, and keep you informed as the investigation progresses.

When looking into a complaint, we attempt to see what happened and why, to see if there is something we can learn from this, and make it possible for you to discuss the issue with those involved if you wish to do so.

When the investigations are complete, a final written response will be sent to you.

Where your complaint involves more than one organisation (e.g. social services) we will liaise with that organisation so that you receive one coordinated reply. We may need your consent to do this. Where your complaint has been initially sent to an incorrect organisation, we may seek your consent to forward this to the correct person to deal with.

The final response letter will include details of the result of your complaint and also your right to refer the matter further to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (details shown elsewhere in this leaflet) if you remain dissatisfied with the response.

The Practice Complaints are managed by:

the Practice Manager

Complaining on Behalf of Someone Else

We keep to the strict rules of medical and personal confidentiality. If you wish to make a complaint and are not the patient involved, we will require the written consent of the patient to confirm that they are unhappy with their treatment and that we can deal with someone else about it. In the event the patient is deceased, then we may agree to respond to a family member or anyone acting on their behalf or who has had an interest in the welfare of the patient.

Please ask at reception for the Complaints Form, which contains a suitable authority for the patient to sign to enable the complaint to proceed. Alternatively, we will send one to you to return to us when we receive your initial written complaint.

Where the patient is incapable of providing consent due to illness, accident or mental capacity, it may still be possible to deal with the complaint. Please provide the precise details of the circumstances that prevent this in your covering letter.

Please note that we are unable to discuss any issue relating to someone else without their express permission, which must be in writing, unless the circumstances above apply. You may also find that if you are complaining on behalf of a child who is capable of making their own complaint, we will expect that child to contact us themselves to lodge their complaint.

We may still need to correspond directly with the patient, or may be able to deal directly with the third party. This depends on the wording of the authority provided.

If you are dissatisfied with the outcome

However, if you do not feel comfortable or believe it is inappropriate to raise your complaint directly with your primary care provider, you must now contact the West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) instead of NHS England. Please contact us by:

Email: wyicb.complaints@nhs.net

Telephone: 01924 552 150*

In writing: Complaints Team, West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board, White Rose House West Parade, Wakefield WF1 1LT

*Monday to Friday 9 to 5 p.m. excluding bank holidays.

Out of hours: Please leave a voice message about the best time to contact you to discuss the details.

 

You have the right to approach the Parliamentary & Health Service Ombudsman. Their contact details are:

The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman Millbank Tower 30 Millbank London SW1P 4QP

Tel: 0345 015 4033

Website: www.ombudsman.org.uk

www.ombudsman.org.uk/make-a-complaint (to complain online or download a paper form)

You may also contact Healthwatch or the Independent Health Complaints Advocacy Team (ICAT) for help or advice; Tel: 01274 750784

www.healthwatch.co.uk

The IHCA is able to be contacted at: www.seap.org.uk/services/nhs-complaints-advocacy