The Care Quality Commission published reports on the quality of care provided by 22 dental practices in England in the past week.
The practices that we have reported on are:
- City Dental Clinic, Islington: Meeting Standards
- Clarendon Dental Spa, Leeds West: Meeting Standards
- Dental Care Centre, Haringey: Meeting Standards
- Dental Practice, South Eastern Hampshire: Meeting Standards
- Dorking Dental Centre, Surrey Downs: Meeting Standards
- Dr Browns Dental Surgery, Sandwell and West Birmingham: Meeting Standards
- Dr Olakunle Awolola - Humber Avenue, Thurrock: Meeting Standards
- Elvetham Dental Care - Fleet, North East Hampshire and Farnham: Meeting Standards
- Fairfield Dental Surgery, Southport and Formby: Meeting Standards
- Jones Dental Care, Coventry and Rugby: Meeting Standards
- Kelvedon Dental Centre, Mid Essex: Meeting Standards
- Kingswood Dental Centre, Bristol: Meeting Standards
- Liss Dental Practice, South Eastern Hampshire: Meeting Standards
- Menston Dental Practice, Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven: Meeting Standards
- Mr Andrew David Morgan - Henley, Oxfordshire: Meeting Standards
- Pentangle Dental Transformations (part of Bupa), Newbury and District: Meeting Standards
- Salimi and Associates Dental Clinic, Southend: Meeting Standards
- The Carnegie Clinic, Bradford Districts: Meeting Standards
- Warwick Lodge Dental Centre, Southend: Meeting Standards
- Westbrook House, Newbury and District: Meeting Standards
- Williams Dental Practice, Newbury and District: Meeting Standards
- 259 Manningham Lane, Bradford City: Not Meeting standards
CQC’s new approach to inspecting dental services:
CQC’s approach to inspecting dental services uses specially trained dental inspectors, usually accompanied by specialist advisors who are qualified dentists or dental care professionals. Similarly, to the other health and social care sectors inspected by CQC, dental reports describe whether services provided are safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led. Our inspections check that practices are meeting the fundamental standards and regulations that came into force on 1 April 2015.
CQC plans to inspect 10 per cent of England’s 10,000 dental practices. Unlike most sectors regulated by CQC, primary care dental services will not be given a rating.
Dr Janet Williamson, Deputy Chief Inspector of General Practice & Dentistry, said:
"We know that the quality of care provided by most dentists meets the fundamental standards required by law and, and that is reflected in the reports we have published so far.
"If we find that a dental practice is failing to meet the required standard - we will expect them to provide us with a full plan setting out how they will address the issue, and we will return to check that they have made the required improvements.
“However good the general picture, we are not complacent. In the first years of inspection, CQC did identify some examples of unacceptable standards of care. Our main priority must be to ensure that we protect the public from unsafe care by continuing to inspect against the regulations and taking action that encourages improvement.”
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