Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS)
The Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS) provides a point of contact for patients who have a concern but either don’t know which member of staff or department to raise it with, or feel that they need to speak to someone outside of the department or ward to which their concern relates.
The Patient Advice and Liaison Service are knowledgeable and experienced in handling patients’ concerns and have overall responsibility for ensuring responses to complainants are coordinated effectively and efficiently.
The main responsibility of the Patient Advice and Liaison Service is to provide a high quality initial response to complainants and to pass concerns and complaints to directorates and departments for investigation and resolution.
Where possible, the Patient Advice and Liaison Service will deal with questions, complaints and straight forward low risk concerns there and then in order to provide a speedy service to callers. They can also offer advice and guidance to any member of staff who is trying to provide direct support to a patient or relative with a concern.
The Patient Advice and Liaison Service can be contacted Monday to Friday Monday to Friday from 9.30am to 4pm
The team can be contacted in the following ways:
- Telephone on 0114 271 2400
- Via email on sth.pals@nhs.net
Outside of this time people can leave email messages for the team to respond to on the next working day.
