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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
If you have had a bad experience of the NHS then you should follow the complaints procedure.
You say that the complaints procedure is inadequate, but you don't elaborate and tell us in what way it is inadequate.
Doctors are regulated by the General Medical Council....and if your complaint is about a doctor then you should complain to them giving full details, I can assure you that the complaint will be full investigated.
Many of the problems beset by the NHS are due to politicians (who know nothing about how the service should be run) meddling...introducing Market forces, targets, tick lists. Since when have patients been tins of beans?
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I have been through the complaints procedure and it is basically a whitewash.
There is this belief in society that just because someone is a GP or Doctor that they know better, in the extreme i say, look at Dr Shipman! Ok that is an extreme. But it shows that people don't question someone because they are a doctor.
Then when you complain they tend to back each other up as do Police and all these organisations.
Anyone see the Channel 4 program Dispatches; Can you trust your Doctor?
Dispatches - Can You Trust Your Doctor? - Channel 4