Complaints Policy
The Weight Loss Medics are committed to providing a high-level service. If you do not receive satisfaction from us we need to hear from you. This will help us to improve our standards.
We aim to ensure that:
- making a complaint is as easy as possible
- we treat a complaint as a clear expression of dissatisfaction with our service which calls for an immediate response
- we deal with it promptly, politely, and confidentially
- we learn from complaints, use them to improve our service, and review annually our complaints policy and procedures.
We recognise that many concerns will be raised informally and dealt with quickly. Our aims are to:
- resolve informal concerns quickly
- keep matters low-key
- enable mediation between the complainant and the individual to whom the complaint has been referred
An informal approach is appropriate when it can be achieved. But if concerns cannot be satisfactorily resolved informally, then the formal complaints procedure should be followed.
Complaints Procedure
If you have a complaint, please contact The Weight Loss Medics: [email protected]
Next steps
- We will send you a letter acknowledging your complaint and asking you to confirm or explain the details set out. We will let you know the name of the person who will be dealing with your complaint. You can expect to receive our letter within 5 working days of us receiving your complaint.
- We will record your complaint in our Complaints Register within a day of having received it.
- We will acknowledge your reply to our acknowledgment letter and confirm what will happen next. You can expect to receive our acknowledgement letter within 5 working days of your reply.
- We will then start to investigate your complaint.
This will involve the following steps:
i). We may ask the member of staff who dealt with you to reply to your complaint within 5 days of our request
ii). We will then examine the member of staff’s reply and the information you have provided for us. If necessary, we may ask you to speak to them.
iii). We will then invite you to meet to discuss and hopefully resolve your complaint. This will be within 5 working days of the end of our investigation
iv). Within 2 days of this meeting we will write to you to confirm the outcome of the meeting and any solutions as agreed with you.
If you do not want a meeting or it is not possible we will send you a detailed written reply to your complaint. This will include suggestions for resolving the matter. This will be done within 5 working days of completing our investigation.