A patient's guide to making a complaint about a doctor

The GMC has developed an interactive guide called Patients' help, for patients who are considering making a complaint about a doctor to the GMC.

 

 

• View Patients' help (Flash version) - for users with a fast Internet connection
• View Patients' help (HTML version) - basic version for slower Internet connection speeds

Please click here if you have trouble accessing Patients' help.

Complaint form

Online complaint form

If you have read the content of Patients' help and feel confident your complaint should go to the GMC, please complete our online complaint form (opens in a new window).

Printable versions of complaints' information

If you would prefer not to complete our online complaint form, you can download and print a complaint form and send it by post.

• Complaint form (97kb, pdf)

You can also download and print our publication, How to complain about a doctor.

• How to complain about a doctor (884kb, pdf)

Patients' help and complaints' information - other versions

Complaints' information - Region-specific versions and other languages

The complaints' information is available to download in a number of languages. There are also region-specific versions for Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.

Patients' help and online complaint form- Welsh language version

You can also view Patients' help and the online complaint form in Welsh - Welsh language versions of Patients help and the online form.