We want our service to meet your expectations. If you have a concern or complaint about any aspect of our service, we would like to identify how we can improve to ensure that we meet your expectations in future. Our aim is to learn from any feedback we receive and improve the service we provide to our patients.
We will deal with complaints courteously and promptly and aim to resolve the matter as quickly as possible.
If you would like us to know how we could have done better please speak to the reception team or email us at enquiries@bdpdental.co.uk
If you wish to make a complaint please contact our complaints manager:
· By telephone on 020 8460 0476
· By email at enquiries@bdpdental.co.uk
· By letter to BDP Dental, 51 Chatterton Road, Bromley BR2 9QQ
If you would prefer to send your complaint in writing (email / letter) please let us know the preferred method for the complaints’ manager to contact you too respond.
If you contact the practice to make a complaint by phone or in person and the Complaints’ Manager is not available, we will arrange a convenient time for them to contact you. We will ask you for brief details of your complaint so that the Complaints’ Manager can gather any useful information before contacting you.
If the matter requires a more immediate response, we will arrange for a senior member of the dental team to contact you.
If your complaint is about your dental treatment or the fee charged, we will usually speak to the dentist concerned and either they or the reception team will contact you.
We acknowledge all complaints in writing and enclose a copy of this code of practice as soon as possible, normally within 3 working days.
Investigating a complaint
We will offer to discuss the complaint with you and will ask how you would like to be kept informed of developments – by telephone, letters or e-mail or by face-to-face meetings. We will let you know how we will deal with your complaint and the likely time that the investigation will take to complete. If you do not wish to discuss the complaint further, we will still let you know the expected timescale for completing the investigation.
We will investigate your complaint promptly within 10 working day or, if the issue is complex, within 6 months and, as far as reasonably practicable, will let you know how our investigation is progressing.
When we have completed our investigation, we will provide you with a full written report, unless you have told us that you do not wish for further communication. The report will explain how we considered the complaint, the conclusions we reached for each part of your complaint, details of any remedial action we have taken and whether further action is needed.
We keep proper and comprehensive records of any complaints that we receive and the action we have taken following investigation. We review these records regularly to ensure that we recognise our mistakes and take every opportunity to improve our service.
If your complaint was about your dental treatment and you are not satisfied with the result of our investigation, you can take up the matter with a relevant external organisation.
For complaints about NHS treatment:
ENGLAND:
The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman, Millbank Tower, Millbank London SW1P 4QP (0345 015 4033 or www.ombudsman.org.uk).
For complaints about private treatment:
Dental Complaints Service, 37 Wimpole Street, London W1G 8DQ
(020 8253 0800 or online at https://contactus.gdc-uk.org/dcs/Complaint/PrivatePatients).