SPSO (Scottish Public Services Ombudsman) Upheld

A Dental Practice in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde NHS Board area

201104012 · Health › complaints handling · Decision date: 01 April 2013

Full Decision

Summary

Mr C raised a complaint about how a dental practice had handled his representations about treatment that he had received by a dentist at the practice. Although it was difficult to establish the exact sequence of events after Mr C complained, our investigation found that the practice had not handled his complaint in line with their complaints procedure and we upheld his complaint.

Recommendations

We recommended that the practice: review their procedures to ensure they deal with complaints in accordance with the NHS complaints procedure; and apologise to Mr C for their handling of this complaint.

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