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Ramsay supports patient power!

Ramsay Health Care runs regular Patient Satisfaction Surveys in our hospitals to help constantly improve our customer service. Managed by independent specialists The Leadership Factor, our overall patient satisfaction index is currently at an exceptionally high level of 91.3%.

 

A growing trend amongst businesses is to include customer testimonials on websites, to help potential clients make an informed decision. This trend is also growing within healthcare. The NHS Choices website, www.nhs.uk, has been allowing NHS patients to review their hospital experiences for some time.

 

Ramsay Health Care supports this ‘patient power’ initiative, and welcomes feedback from patients who have experienced a Ramsay facility. By logging comments on the NHS Choices site, Ramsay NHS patients can help our hospitals ensure we provide a good service. Just as importantly, this helps to support Patient Choice by providing potential patients with an impartial, first-hand account of their experience.

 

Recently Pinehill Hospital, in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, has been encouraging patients to give testimonials on a local website too. ‘The Best of Hitchin’, at www.thebestof.co.uk/local/hitchin, provides information and reviews of local organisations, and getting involved in the site as had some fantastic results.

 

Sarah Hurry, Marketing Coordinator at Pinehill, explains: “This kind of personal feedback is a powerful tool in the electronic age of social networking and has real value not only as an advertising medium but for staff motivation. Being thanked so publicly for doing a good job puts a smile on anyone’s face.”

 

To make a comment on your experiences as an NHS patient at a Ramsay hospital, log on to www.nhs.uk.

 

For further information about our independent patient satisfaction surveys, see www.leadershipfactor.co.uk.

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