Complaints policy

If you have a complaint or concern about the service you have received from the dentist or any of the staff working at this practice, please let us know. We operate a practice complaints procedure for dealing with complaints. Our complaints system meets national criteria.

How to complain

We hope that most problems can be resolved easy and quickly, often at the time they arise with the person concerned. If your problem cannot be sorted this way and you wish to make a complaint, we will respond to your complaint within 3 working days, enabling us to establish what happened more easily. If it is not possible to do that, please let us have details of your complaint within 12 months of the incident that caused the problem.

Complaints should be addressed to Dr H Hassanzadeh, Complaints Manager,

You may ask for an appointment in order to discuss your concerns. We will explain the complaints procedure to you and will ensure that your concerns are dealt with promptly. It will be a great help if you are as specific as possible about your complaint.

What shall we do:

We shall acknowledge your complaint within 3 working days and aim to investigate your complaint within 14 working days of the date when you raised it with us. We shall then be in a position to offer you an explanation, or a meeting with the people involved. When we investigate your complaint, we should aim to:

  • Find out what happened and what went wrong
  • Make is possible for you to discuss the problem with those concerned if you would like this
  • Make sure you receive an apology where this is appropriate
  • Identify what we can do to make sure the problem doesn’t happen again

Should a patient make a complaint or claim, we may need to provide information about the patient, and treatment they have received, to insurers, indemnifiers or legal advisors.

Complaining on behalf of someone else

Please not that we keep strictly to the rules of clinical confidentiality. If you are complaining on behalf of someone else, we must know that you have their permission to do so. A note signed by the person concerned will be needed, unless they are incapable (because of physical and mental illness) of providing this.

Dental Complaints Service

37 Wimpole Street

London W1G 8DQ

Telephone: 020 8253 0800

(Monday-Friday 9am-5pm)

General Dental Council 

37 Wimpole Street

London W1G 8DQ

Email: www.gdc-uk.org 

Telephone: 0845 222 4141 or 020 7887 3800

Complaints and the CQC

The CQC don’t get directly involved with complaints made to the practice. They do, however, encourage giving feedback for service providers.

The send feedback to the CQC about please go to:

https://www.cqc.org.uk/give-feedback-on-care

or telephone 03000 616161 Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 5.30pm. Excluding Bank Holidays.