Concerns about your care
- How we are supporting LGBTQ+ patients
- Concerns about your care
- LGBT support organisations
What to do if you’re concerned about your care
The majority of doctors, physician associates and anaesthesia associates treat their patients with courtesy and respect. If you feel that a doctor, physician associate or anaesthesia associate has discriminated against you or treated you differently because of your sexual orientation or gender identity, you have the right to complain.
Organisations need to know who you are to consider your concerns fully. It's your decision to disclose whether you're LGBTQ+. If you do, it might provide useful context.
Raising a concern locally
You should raise these issues with the organisation where you received treatment first. Most issues can be settled locally.
There are a number of local help services that can support you with this.
Raising a concern with us
If a doctor, physician associate or anaesthesia associate poses a serious risk to patients, or their actions are likely to undermine public confidence in the professions that we regulate, then we may need to step in. Where we think a doctor, physician associate or anaesthesia associate may not be fit to practise we can place restrictions on their registration or stop them from practising.
