Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS)
To make an enquiry or discuss a concern, you can access the Patient Advice Liaison Service (PALS) in the following ways. Please be aware that PALS is not an emergency service. If you have concerns regarding your medical health, please contact your GP or call the NHS on 111.
Contact details
Telephone and email monitoring is between 9:00am and 4:00pm.
- Due to high demand, calls may not be answered; a voicemail service is in operation.
- Enquiries are monitored regularly
- Target response time: within 10 working days
Telephone:
Email:
PALS office opening hours
9.30am to 12.00pm and 1.00pm to 3.30pm Monday to Friday excluding bank holidays.
On occasions, we may have to shut the office during this time to ensure patient confidentiality.
Location:
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Media Enquiries
Our Communications Team handles all external media relations on behalf of the Trust.
If you are a journalist or from a media organisation with a press enquiry or interview request, please email our UHN Communications team. This inbox is monitored from Monday to Friday between 9am and 5pm.
Out-of-hours Media Enquiries
Outside of office hours, we will only deal with urgent time-sensitive media enquiries.
If your enquiry is urgent, call our main switchboard on 01536 492000 and ask for 'communications on-call'.
Communications Office
Telephone the Communications Team: 01536 491770 (Monday to Friday during office hours)