Archived: Haslam Park Dental Practice

Updated 28 February 2017

We undertook a follow up inspection of Haslam Park Dental Practice on 31 January 2017. This inspection was carried out to check that improvements to meet legal requirements planned by the practice after our comprehensive inspection on 10 November 2016 had been made. We inspected the practice against one of the five questions we ask about services: is the service well led. This is because the service was not meeting some of the legal requirements in relation to this question.

The inspection was carried out by a CQC inspector who had remote access to a specialist dental advisor.

Updated 28 February 2017

We carried out a follow up inspection on 31 January 2017 of Haslam Park Dental Practice.

We had undertaken an announced comprehensive inspection of this service on 10 November 2016 as part of our regulatory functions and during this inspection we found breaches of the legal requirements.

After the comprehensive inspection, the practice wrote to us to say what they would do to meet the legal requirements in relation to the breach. This report only covers our findings in relation to those requirements.

We checked whether they had followed their action plan to confirm that they now met the legal requirements.

We reviewed the practice against oneof the five questions we ask about services: is the service well led?

A copy of the report from our last comprehensive inspection can be found by selecting the 'all reports' link for Haslam Park Dental Practice on our website at www.cqc.org.uk.

Our findings were:

Are services well led ?

We found that this practice was providing well led care in accordance with the relevant regulations.

Background

Haslam Park Dental Practice is situated in Bolton, Lancashire. The practice offers mainly NHS dental treatments to patients of all ages and also offers private dental treatments. The services include preventative advice and treatment and routine restorative dental care.

The practice has two surgeries, a decontamination room, two waiting areas and a reception area. The reception area, one waiting room and one surgery are on the ground floor of the premises. The other waiting room and the second surgery are on the first floor of the premises. They have a portable ramp to access the premises and a stair lift.

There are two dentists and four dental nurses (two of whom are trainees).

The opening hours are Monday to Wednesday from 9-00am to 5-30pm, Thursday from 9-00am to 7-00pm and Friday from 9-00am to 5-00pm.

The practice owner is registered with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) as an individual. Registered persons have legal responsibility for meeting the requirements in the Health and Social Care Act 2008 and associated Regulations about how the practice is run.

Our key findings were:

• The practice had adopted a comprehensive system of clinical governance.
• Risks associated with Legionella had been addressed.
• A system to ensure audits were carried out at regular intervals had been implemented.
• A training matrix had been implemented to ensure all staff were up to date with training.
• A cleaning schedule had been implemented.
• Infection control procedures and processes had been updated and implemented.
• A system was in place to ensure equipment was regularly serviced in line with manufacturer’s guidance.