Help us help you, and be better all together!

We are committed to providing better service and support and your feedback, suggestions and thoughts go a long way to helping us.

Feedback

When things dont go as well as you'd expect we'd like to know and helps us improve and make things right!

Bouquet

Tell us about something that has made your day, our staff, an interaction you had! We'd love to celebrate!

Suggestion

Looking from the outside gives you a different perspective. Tell us your ideas and thoughts!

If you make a complaint to us, we will:

  • Let you know in writing that we have received your complaint within five working days of receiving it, unless it has already been resolved to your satisfaction within that time.
  • Let you know within ten working days whether or not we feel your complaint is justified. If we need more time to investigate your complaint, we will advise you of this and why more time is needed.

Not keen on filling in an online form?

If you don’t want to complete this process online, then please either come in and talk to us, put your complaint in writing including these details, or download this form, print, fill in and drop to us.

Please include the following details:

  • Brief description of the incident(s) that occurred
  • Time and date of incident(s)
  • Details of the action, event, process or staff member
  • Names of staff involved (if possible)

And send to:

The Complaints Officer
St Martins Medical Practice
79 Wilsons Road
St Martins
Christchurch 8022

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Help and advice

You may wish to contact the Health and Disability Consumer Advocacy Service for further advice.
Toll free: 0800 555 050
Email: advocacy@hdc.org.nz

For serious medical misconduct or if you are unhappy with the way we have handled your complaint, you can contact:

The Health and Disability Commissioner
P O Box 1791
Auckland
Phone 0800 11 22 33

Code of Rights summary