NHS Kent & Medway ICB (24 023 310a)

Statement Closed after initial enquiries Hospital acute services 15-Jul-2025

Summary: Mr X complains about the way Kent County Council and NHS Kent and Medway managed his care charges and communicated with him about them. We will not investigate Mr X’s complaint about communication because there is insufficient injustice to warrant an investigation. We will not investigate Mr X’s complaint about the Council’s financial assessment as we are unlikely to find fault in the way the Council completed this.

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust (24 001 324a)

Statement Upheld Hospital acute services 01-Jul-2025

Summary: Mrs X complained the NHS Trust and the Council discharged her father from hospital into an unsuitable care home. We found fault by the NHS Trust, but we could not say this would have led to a different outcome. The NHS Trust has already accepted the fault, but we recommended it apologises to Mrs X for the uncertainty caused. We did not find fault by the Council’s actions, but we did find fault with how it dealt with Mrs X’s complaint. We made recommendations to address this.

NHS Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire ICB (24 005 840a)

Statement Not upheld Hospital acute services 30-Jun-2025

Summary: Mr X complains about the lack of information he received when his father was discharged from hospital. We found fault by the Council and the NHS organisation responsible for coordinating hospital discharges with their communication. This led to a loss of opportunity for Mr X to make informed decisions about his father’s care. The organisations have agreed to apologise to Mr X and pay a financial payment in recognition of the loss of opportunity and distress, and make service improvements.

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (24 005 840b)

Statement Closed after initial enquiries Hospital acute services 30-Jun-2025

Summary: Mr X complains about the lack of information he received when his father was discharged from hospital. We found fault by the Council and the NHS organisation responsible for coordinating hospital discharges with their communication. This led to a loss of opportunity for Mr X to make informed decisions about his father’s care. The organisations have agreed to apologise to Mr X and pay a financial payment in recognition of the loss of opportunity and distress, and make service improvements.

Wiltshire Health and Care (24 005 840c)

Statement Upheld Hospital acute services 30-Jun-2025

Summary: Mr X complains about the lack of information he received when his father was discharged from hospital. We found fault by the Council and the NHS organisation responsible for coordinating hospital discharges with their communication. This led to a loss of opportunity for Mr X to make informed decisions about his father’s care. The organisations have agreed to apologise to Mr X and pay a financial payment in recognition of the loss of opportunity and distress, and make service improvements.

Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (24 010 003a)

Statement Upheld Hospital acute services 30-Jun-2025

Summary: Mrs X complains about problems related to her husband Mr X’s discharge from hospital to residential care. We have not found fault with Dorset Council or Agincare UK Weymouth. Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (the Trust) acted with fault in the way it managed Mr X’s hospital discharge and communicated with Mrs X. We recommended the Trust apologised to Mrs X and paid her £250 in recognition of the avoidable uncertainty and frustration caused by its fault. We also recommended the Trust shared an anonymised version of this decision with staff for learning. The Trust accepted our recommendations, so we have completed our investigation.

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (24 005 471a)

Statement Upheld Hospital acute services 26-Jun-2025

Summary: Mrs X complained on behalf of her father, Mr Y about the way Lincolnshire County Council and United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust discharged him from hospital to a care home, The Old Rectory. The Hospital Trust acted with fault when it discharged Mr Y and should apologise to Mrs X for the uncertainty it caused her. It should also take action to avoid similar fault. Mrs X also complained about Lincolnshire Community Health Service NHS Trust’s support for Mr Y’s pressure sores. We found the Community Trust should have started care planning sooner than it did. While that did not cause any injustice, it should take action to avoid similar fault in future.

Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust (24 016 641a)

Statement Closed after initial enquiries Hospital acute services 13-May-2025

Summary: Mr X complained the NHS Trust and the Council moved his father from hospital into a care home that could not meet his needs. Mr X says the failings led to his father suffering an injury which hastened his death. Mr X also complained the Council missed carer’s assessments, which meant he missed payments. We will not investigate these complaints because there is not enough evidence of fault with the discharge planning or with how the Council dealt with a carer’s assessment request. Other complaints about earlier carer’s assessments were late.

County Durham & Darlington NHS Foundation Trust (24 005 797a)

Statement Not upheld Hospital acute services 30-Mar-2025

Summary: We do not uphold Mr X’s complaint about the way Durham County Council and County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust discharged his mother, Mrs Y, from hospital on three occasions. We have not found fault with the way Mrs Y was discharged or the reablement care she received at home.

St Georges University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (24 013 547b)

Statement Closed after initial enquiries Hospital acute services 19-Mar-2025

Summary: Ms X complained that the London Borough of Wandsworth and Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust failed to arrange or provide adequate care for her mother, at home, in the summer of 2022. We will not investigate Ms X’s complaint. This is because it is unlikely an investigation would be able to make findings or recommend outcomes Ms X would find satisfactory.