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PHSO Casework Decisions

3,787 published decisions 3,219 Health (NHS) 568 Parliamentary 18% upheld or partly upheld Range: Apr 2021–Apr 2026

Published casework decisions from the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman. PHSO selects a subset of completed investigations for publication — these 3,787 decisions represent approximately 1.2% of the 319,011 total complaints received across the same period. Source: decisions.ombudsman.org.uk.

Decisions

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Reference Organisation Jurisdiction Outcome Date
P-005296 University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
Ms X complains about aspects of the care and treatment her late sister received from the Trust in October and …
NHS in England Not upheld 27 Apr 2026
P-005076 University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
Miss E complains the Trust discharged her from its emergency department (ED) when she felt unsafe to go home. She …
NHS in England Closed 23 Mar 2026
P-005023 University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
Mr R complains about the care and treatment of his late grandmother from University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust from …
NHS in England Partly upheld 11 Mar 2026
P-004872 University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
complaint about delays in diagnosis a stroke, subsequent ward placement and care in the patients last days of life.
NHS in England Closed 23 Feb 2026
P-004643 University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
Mrs E complains about the information the Trust gave her prior to her surgery and that they installed the wrong …
NHS in England Closed 20 Jan 2026
P-004547 University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
Mr B complains University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust failed to appropriately examine his mother when she attended the Emergency …
NHS in England Partly upheld 23 Dec 2025
P-004495 University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
We do not see any indications of maladministration or service failure for all of Mr Harris' complainant components. There are …
NHS in England Closed 17 Dec 2025
P-004487 University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
Mr Y has concerns that his mother experienced a fall at the Trust and subsequently died. Mr Y was also …
NHS in England Closed 16 Dec 2025
P-004143 University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
Mr G complains about the care the Trust gave his mother between February and April 2023. He says staff treated …
NHS in England Closed 13 Oct 2025
P-004166 University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
Mr N complains about various issues relating to his wife's care in hospital towards the end of her life.
NHS in England Not upheld 6 Oct 2025
P-004086 University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
Mrs U complains about the care and treatment the Trust provided to her husband from December 2021 to January 2022. …
NHS in England Partly upheld 29 Sep 2025
P-003949 University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
Ms W complains about the waiting time for an appointment at the Trust.
NHS in England Closed 9 Sep 2025
P-003701 University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
Mrs N complains the Trust wrongly discharged her husband from A&E in April 2022 and then a month later, it …
NHS in England Closed 28 Jul 2025
P-003681 University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
Miss Q complains staff did not provide her father with sufficient palliative pain relief in March 2023 when he was …
NHS in England Partly upheld 27 Jul 2025
P-003334 University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
Mrs A complains the Trust did not give her husband pain relief when he was in A&E for five hours …
NHS in England Closed 11 Feb 2025
P-002975 University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
Mr T complains the Trust did not do an appropriate examination of his head injury when he attended A&E in …
NHS in England Closed 10 Sep 2024
P-002861 University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
Miss and Mrs Q complain that staff stopped Mr Q's medication and delayed in setting up a syringe driver when …
NHS in England Closed 6 Aug 2024
P-002793 University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
Miss C complains about the care and treatment she had from the Trust's eye clinic between 2021 and 2023. She …
NHS in England Closed 28 Jul 2024
P-002642 University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
Mr P complains about the care and treatment his mother had from the Trust between May 2019 and January 2020. …
NHS in England Upheld 24 May 2024
P-002622 University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
Mrs D complains the Trust's emergency department caused a delay in her getting a deep vein thrombosis diagnosis because it …
NHS in England Closed 22 May 2024
P-002608 University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
Ms Y complains about how the Trust reported on her mother’s CT scans and managed her cancer diagnosis.
NHS in England Partly upheld 1 May 2024
P-002535 University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
Mrs A complains about the care the Trust gave to her husband and about its complaint handling.
NHS in England Closed 14 Apr 2024
P-002248 University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
Mr I complains the Trust failed to diagnose a haematoma in April 2022 and that it did not tell him …
NHS in England Closed 26 Oct 2023
P-003880 University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
Miss M complains about the Trust's care of her mother. She says it delayed discharging her mother to a rehabilitation …
NHS in England Closed 8 Sep 2023
P-002189 University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
Mrs A complains about the care and treatment doctors gave her husband in November 2021. She thinks her husband should …
NHS in England Closed 28 Aug 2023