Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS)

It is a confidential service that aims to:

• advise and support patients, their families, and their carers
• listen to patients' concerns, queries and suggestions
• help sort out problems quickly on your behalf
• inform patients, their families and their carers about the Trust's Complaints Procedure
• assist you if you have any concerns about your rights as a patient and how the OUH is fulfilling its part of the NHS Constitution with regard to your own care.

Contact details

To make a formal complaint, please see Complaints.

John Radcliffe Hospital

• Tel: 01865 221473
• Email: PALS@ouh.nhs.uk
• John Radcliffe Hospital

Churchill Hospital

• Tel: 01865 235855
• Email: PALS@ouh.nhs.uk
• Churchill Hospital

Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre

• Tel: 01865 221473
• Email: PALS@ouh.nhs.uk
• Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre

Horton General Hospital

• PALS Office
  Horton General Hospital
  Oxford Road
  Banbury, OX16 9AL

• Tel: 01295 229259
• Email: PALS@ouh.nhs.uk
  
• Horton General Hospital

Useful resources

Accommodation for relatives

The following websites offer information about local accommodation for families of patients in hospital.

• Experience Oxfordshire
• Oxford City Oxford Visitor Information
• Cotswolds Accommodation

Support for carers

Do you look after someone? Carers Oxfordshire listens to carers and provides information and advice. It also aims to help carers get the support they may need.

Tel: 0845 050 7666

Email: carersoxfordshire@oxfordshire.gov.uk

Support for carers at Oxford University Hospitals

Please see Carers' information