The Magnolia Clinic strives to provide the best possible service for our patients. We recognise that sometimes you may feel that we have not met your needs. If you have a complaint or concern about the service you have received from the doctors or staff working at this practice, you are entitled to ask for an explanation. We operate an in-house complaints procedure to deal with your complaint. This procedure does not deal with matters of legal liability or compensation. 

Our promise to you is that we will:

• Listen to your complaint or concern.

• Respond by establishing a clear, appropriate plan of action, and provide you with relevant support and advice.

• Improve the service however we can. 

How to make your complaint  

Please feel free to contact the Registered Manager by using the Contact Us form, and we hope that we can resolve your problem easily and promptly. 

Kindly try to provide details of:

• How or what you are complaining about.

• Where and when the event that caused your complaint happened

• If possible, what you would like to be done to address your complaint.

If your problem cannot be sorted out in this way and you wish to make a formal complaint, we would like you to do so as soon as possible. This will enable us to establish what happened more easily.

If you would like assistance with making your complaint, a member of staff will be able to help you complete a complaint form. You should state what has caused you to have concerns and make your points clear. Please tell us when the relevant events took place and what results you expect from your complaint.

Please be assured that any complaint you make, written or verbal, will be treated in strict confidence and have no effect upon the level of treatment and care that you receive at the practice.

If you would prefer a family member, friend or advocate to make the complaint on your behalf, they may do so and the practice will work with them, and you, to resolve the problem. However, whilst we can receive a complaint on your behalf, we cannot provide any medical information to a third party without your authority. To discuss or provide confidential information we would require a note signed and dated by you. A member of our staff would be happy to assist you with this.

Complaints should be made as soon as possible and within 6 months of the date of the event complained about, or within 6 months of the matter coming to your attention. We may extend the time limit where you have good reason for not making a complaint in the time limit (for example, where you have been grieving), and there is a realistic opportunity of conducting a fair and effective investigation into the issues raised.

Reasonable assistance will be provided where required, e.g., if you have a disability or where your first language is not English.

What happens next? 

Your complaint will be acknowledged within 3 working days of receiving it. This may well be a phone call or an email response from one of the doctors to you (or your advocate) to make sure we fully understand your complaint.

We aim to make a full response to you within the next 21 working days. During that time, we will conduct an investigation to find out what has happened and whether there is any action that can be taken to put things right. If at the end of those 21 days we are still conducting our investigations, we will notify you of the position and keep you fully informed until our investigations have been concluded. It is important that the right balance is struck between a timely response and one that is informed by comprehensive local action, as this will provide the best response to the complainant.

As a result of the practice investigation, we will:

• Make sure you receive an apology.

• Find out what has happened and what went wrong.

• Make it possible for you to discuss the problem with those concerned, if you would like this.

• Keep you informed of our progress.

• Identify what we can do to make sure that problem does not happen again. 

Getting further help with your complaint.

We hope that, through our practice complaints procedure, we can resolve your problem satisfactorily. We believe that this will give us the best chance to put the matter right with you and the opportunity to improve our services for all our patients. 

If an internal resolution cannot be achieved, the matter will be referred to an independent third party, the Independent Doctors Federation.

If you remain dissatisfied, you, you can take the complaint to ISCAS for final adjudication. They have a team of trained advisors who help private patients settle grievances regarding private care. https://iscas.cedr.com/patients/complaints-process/ 

You may contact the Care Quality Commission (“CQC”), if you feel that your complaint is not being dealt with in a satisfactory manner, on 03000 616161. If you have any questions, please do reach out to our Registered Manager, Dr Tala Andoni (tala@themagnoliaclinic.com) 

Thank you,

The Magnolia Clinic for Functional Wellness