Postal address
Brighton and Hove Wellbeing Service
4th Floor
177 Preston Road
Brighton
BN1 6AG
This is our administrative base. We do not run clinics from this location.
Phone
0300 002 0060
Our lines are open Monday-Friday 8am-6pm
We close our lines for one hour between 11am-12pm every Thursday, and cannot respond to emails within this hour.
Calls to 030 numbers cost the same as calling geographic numbers (01 and 02) and must be included in inclusive minutes and discount schemes in the same way. For more about the cost of calls to telephone numbers starting with 030 please visit the Ofcom website.
spft.bhwellbeing@nhs.net
You can email any non-urgent queries to us. We aim to respond within 24 hours.
Self-referral
You can make a self-referral in to the service. More information can be found on our referrals page.
Your Records
Accessing your record
If you wish you access copies of your record in the Wellbeing Service, please email the records management team at RecordsManagement@spft.nhs.uk. Alternatively you can contact us by post to the address above. Please be aware that we will require a signed form of authority to ensure that we share information only with your informed consent.
What you need to know
As an NHS service, we keep information about you and your care to ensure that we can give you the best possible service. We may use this information to:
Make sure your care is of a high standard
Plan and develop services
Check how well we are performing
Help train staff and support research
Fund your care
Confidentiality and data protection
By law:
Everyone working with and in the NHS and social services must keep your information confidential
Everyone must keep your information secure and share it only when necessary
Wherever possible we will keep your information anonymous so that it cannot be linked to you
We follow the principles of the Data Protection Act (1988) in the processing of personal information. If you wish to know more about the DPA, you can find further information on the GOV.UK website.
For more information on how we use your data, please read the Sussex Partnership Privacy Notice.
Your Feedback
How are we doing?
We like to know if you receive a particularly good service from us or if our service doesn't reach a high standard. We also welcome your feedback via our assessment and end of treatment patient surveys. You will receive links to these via text message.
How to make a complaint
If you would like to raise concerns about any aspect of your care, you can contact the Wellbeing Service directly via the address, email or phone number above. We will reply within 3 days and will aim to come to a resolution with you within 20 days.
Alternatively, if you wish to file a formal complaint, you can contact Sussex Partnership’s Patient Advice and Liaison Service at pals@spft.nhs.uk.
If you feel that you need some support with your complaint, you can contact POhWER by calling 0300 456 2370, emailing pohwer@pohwer.net or writing to PO Box 14043, Birmingham, B6 9BL. You can also send the word ’pohwer’ with your name and number to 81025.
If you would like free and independent information about local health and social care services including how to access them and what to do if things go wrong, you can contact Healthwatch Brighton and Hove on 01273 234040 (10am-12pm, Monday to Friday) or visit www.healthwatchbrightonandhove.co.uk