Using patient feedback: a practical toolkit

A guide to help healthcare professionals and patients to understand and act on patient feedback.

Using patient feedback: a practical guide to improving patient experience

The guide explains the principles of gathering patient and service user feedback and then outlines what to do with the feedback in order to bring about improvements to healthcare services.

Our guidance is based on what patients say is important, and what healthcare staff tell us works.

 

How to use the guide

The publication is comprised of a number of sections. Each one gives you an outline of the topic as well as practical tools and resources to support implementation:

Icon: Acrobat PDFSection 1 Introduction

Icon: Acrobat PDFSection 2 What patient feedback is and how you can obtain it

Icon: Acrobat PDFSection 3 Understanding findings from your surveys

Icon: Acrobat PDFSection 4 Sharing feedback

Icon: Acrobat PDFSection 5 Action planning for improvement

Icon: Acrobat PDFSection 6 Getting key stakeholders involved

Icon: Acrobat PDFSection 7 Useful tools

Icon: Acrobat PDFWhere it works Case studies from a range of organisations

DownloadIcon: Acrobat PDFthe guide as one PDF.

To view more examples of good practice in using patient feedback to bring about improvements visit our Good Practice Database.

Hard copies of the guide are available on request from info at pickereurope.ac.uk Icon: Email address

Last updated: 23rd December 2009