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Service 05

Patient Experience & Quality Improvement

Understanding the visit as the patient experiences it — then improving it with evidence rather than assumption.

A clean, calm hospital patient room with a bed and seating

Overview

What this service covers

Patient satisfaction is shaped by the whole visit: how long the wait felt, how clearly things were explained, how confidently staff handled a query, and whether a complaint reached anyone able to act on it.

SH Health maps the patient journey end to end to show where experience is lost, establishes feedback and grievance systems that capture what patients actually report, and conducts service quality audits that measure performance against defined standards.

The purpose is a continuing loop rather than a single review — evidence gathered, acted upon, and checked again, so that improvement becomes part of ordinary operations.

What we support

The specific areas covered within this service.

  • Patient journey mapping
  • Feedback and grievance systems
  • Service quality audits

Our approach

How we support this area

Work is shaped around the organisation in front of us. The sequence below describes how support in this area usually proceeds.
  1. Map the patient journey across departments to locate the points where experience deteriorates.

  2. Establish feedback and grievance systems that record concerns and route them to someone accountable.

  3. Conduct service quality audits against defined standards to give improvement an evidence base.

  4. Feed audit and feedback findings back into workflows so changes are sustained.

Related

Other areas we support

Operational, compliance and administrative work rarely stands alone. These are most often taken up alongside this service.

Next step

Discuss patient experience & quality for your organisation

Tell us how this area currently works in your facility and what you would like it to look like. We will start by understanding the situation before recommending anything.