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Contents
- How to complain about a doctor
- Help for witnesses
- Standards and ethics guidance for doctors
- Who regulates health and social care professionals?
How to complain about a doctor – a guide for patients
Our procedures are the same throughout the UK, but healthcare and support organisations do vary throughout the UK, so we have produced separate guidance for patients in England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.
Web version: View How to complain about a doctor (full website)
Email pdf:
- How to complain about a doctor in England
- How to complain about a doctor in Scotland
- How to complain about a doctor in Wales – Welsh version
- How to complain about a doctor in Wales – English version
- How to complain about a doctor in Northern Ireland
- How to complain about a doctor – Arabic version
- How to complain about a doctor – Bengali version
- How to complain about a doctor – French version
- How to complain about a doctor – Gujarati version
- How to complain about a doctor – Hindi version
- How to complain about a doctor – Mandarin version
- How to complain about a doctor – Polish version
- How to complain about a doctor – Punjabi version
- How to complain about a doctor – Urdu version
- How to complain about a doctor – easy read version
If you have made a complaint and are feeling worried about it, Victim Support offers independent, free and confidential support.
Email pdf: Have you complained to us about a doctor?
Help for witnesses
This publication provides help and advice for witnesses who are giving evidence at fitness to practise hearings, which are run by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service.
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Web version: View Help for witnesses (full website)
Email pdf:
- Help for witnesses – English version
- Help for witnesses – Punjabi version
- Help for witnesses – Romanian version
- Help for witnesses – Urdu version
- Help for witnesses – Welsh version
Standards and ethics guidance for doctors
Our core guidance is Good Medical Practice, which sets out the principles and values on which good practice is founded.
Web version: View Good Medical Practice
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We also publish guidance on issues such as reporting gunshot and knife wounds, raising and acting on concerns about patient safety, and obtaining consent to treatment from children. You can read all our standards and ethics guidance for doctors on the publications page for doctors. The Welsh versions of the standards and ethics guidance are available on our full website.
Who regulates health and social care professionals?
Health and social care professionals who work in the UK must be registered with one of the 12 regulators listed in this leaflet.
Email document:
- Who regulates health and social care professionals? - English version (pdf)
- Who regulates health and social care professionals? - Welsh version (pdf)
- Who regulates health and social care professionals? - large print version (doc)