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PHSO Casework Decisions

3,824 published decisions 3,251 Health (NHS) 573 Parliamentary 18% upheld or partly upheld Range: Apr 2021–May 2026

Published casework decisions from the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman. PHSO selects a subset of completed investigations for publication — these 3,824 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-001839 A practice in the Hertfordshire area
Mrs I complains the Practice missed an opportunity to diagnose her mother with a perforated colon, peritonitis and sepsis. She …
NHS in England Closed 27 Jan 2023
P-001771 Priory Group Limited
Ms L complains about the care, treatment, diagnosis she received while she was admitted to the Priory Hospital.
NHS in England Closed 26 Jan 2023
P-001764 Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust
Ms A complains the Trust should not have allowed her father to go to the toilet unaccompanied and without his …
NHS in England Closed 26 Jan 2023
P-001760 St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation T…
Miss B complains the Trust should have allowed her mother, Mrs P, to come home to keep her safe from …
NHS in England Closed 26 Jan 2023
P-001699 A practice in the Lancashire area
Miss B complains the Practice did not check up on her uncle's health, or diagnose his condition, but put it …
NHS in England Closed 26 Jan 2023
P-001739 A practice in the Worcestershire area
Mrs O complains the Practice dismissed concerns about her son's health and the results of a blood test in April …
NHS in England Closed 25 Jan 2023
P-001717 Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS …
Mr A complains about the Trust's care and treatment of his fiancée, Ms E. He complains about the communication and …
NHS in England Partly upheld 25 Jan 2023
P-001720 A practice in the Wirral area
Mr O complains the Practice gave him wrong information about his test results and about its planned course of treatment.
NHS in England Closed 25 Jan 2023
P-001770 The Adjudicator's Office
Mr L complains the Adjudicator's Office did not consider the evidence he sent to it and that it sided with …
UK Government Closed 24 Jan 2023
P-001711 NHS England
Mrs A complains about NHS England's decision not to hold an Independent Review Panel (IRP) to consider eligibility to Continuing …
NHS in England Closed 24 Jan 2023
P-001698 The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
Mrs O complains the Trust did not manage her mother's iron deficiency anaemia properly. She also complains it did not …
NHS in England Partly upheld 24 Jan 2023
P-001765 Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust
Ms G complains the Trust did an MRI scan on 23 March 2017 but missed a meningioma (tumors of the …
NHS in England Closed 20 Jan 2023
P-001766 Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Ms P complains the Trust missed opportunities during antenatal scans to identify that her son had a heart condition.
NHS in England Closed 20 Jan 2023
P-001747 A practice in the Essex area
Miss A complains the Practice wrongly prescribed her with an eye ointment when she had an abscess on her left …
NHS in England Partly upheld 20 Jan 2023
P-001731 Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Mrs A complains the Trust prescribed incorrect medication to her after she had her gall bladder removed. She says this …
NHS in England Closed 20 Jan 2023
P-001763 University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Tr…
Mrs H complains about aspects of the Trust's care and treatment given to her late husband, Mr H, from 21 …
NHS in England Closed 19 Jan 2023
P-001748 Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Mr I complains the Trust failed to correctly diagnose him and wrongly treated him for a skin condition for 15 …
NHS in England Closed 19 Jan 2023
P-001730 North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust
Mr I complains the North West Ambulance Service misdiagnosed him with pulled muscles and he later discovered he had a …
NHS in England Closed 19 Jan 2023
P-001756 Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Mr H complains the Trust should have operated on his injuries sooner than it did. Mr H says the two …
NHS in England Closed 17 Jan 2023
P-001724 Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Miss X complains a nurse lifted her father’s head and 'shoved' a pillow underneath it knowing he was recovering from …
NHS in England Closed 17 Jan 2023
P-001838 Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board
Mr O complains the ICB refused to award continuing healthcare funding (CHC) to his wife, Mrs O. He feels that …
NHS in England Closed 16 Jan 2023
P-001738 A practice in the Gateshead area
Miss T complains the Practice failed to investigate lumps in her breasts and to put her on a two-week referral …
NHS in England Closed 16 Jan 2023
P-001752 A dental practice in the Shropshire area
Mrs O complains the Practice failed to complete a root canal correctly.
NHS in England Closed 16 Jan 2023
P-001736 Integrated Care Northamptonshire
Mrs B complains on behalf of her daughter, Miss B, that the ICB refused to fund a specialised bike in …
NHS in England Closed 16 Jan 2023
P-001743 HM Revenue and Customs
Mr M complains HMRC told him he had received an overpayment in the 2009-10 tax year despite him being entitled …
UK Government Closed 13 Jan 2023