Essex Rivers Healthcare NHS Trust

HC Deb 20 July 1998 vol 316 c409W

Mr. Bob Russell

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many formal complaints were made to the Essex Rivers Healthcare NHS Trust in each of the last five years for which figures are available. [48950]

Mr. Milburn

The information requested is in the table:

Table: Number of written complaints for Essex Rivers Healthcare National Health Service Trust 1992–93 to 1996–97
Year	Essex Rivers Healthcare NHS Trust
1992–93	388
1993–94	609
1994–95	563
1995–96	431
1996–971	492
1Department of Health publication, Handling complaints: monitoring the NHS complaints procedure, England 1996–97

Source

Department of Health publications, Written complaints by, or on behalf of, patients, England, 1992–93 to 1995–96.