The Care Quality Commission published reports on the quality of care provided by 23 dental practices in England last week.
The practices that we have reported on are:
- Aron Marcus Dental Surgery, NHS Barnet CCG: Dental Compliant
- Beech House Dental Practice, NHS Surrey Downs CCG: Dental Compliant
- Family Dental Care - Park Road Bingley, NHS Bradford Districts CCG: Dental Compliant
- G N Rashid, NHS Brent CCG: Dental Compliant
- Genix Healthcare Dental Clinic - Alnwick, NHS Northumberland CCG: Dental Compliant
- Hampden Dental Clinic, NHS Barnet CCG: Dental Compliant
- High Street Dental Practice, NHS Bedfordshire CCG: Dental Compliant
- Highfields Dental Practice (Mr. Fariborz Ladjevardi), NHS South Cheshire CCG: Dental Compliant
- Hullbridge Dental Centre, NHS Castle Point and Rochford CCG: Dental Compliant
- IDH Street, NHS Somerset CCG: Dental Compliant
- J. Sainsbury - Benfleet, NHS Castle Point and Rochford CCG: Dental Compliant
- Malden Dental Care, NHS Kingston CCG: Dental Compliant
- Market Weighton Dental Practice, NHS East Riding of Yorkshire CCG: Dental Compliant
- Mr Imran Azmat - Birchfield Road, NHS Sandwell and West Birmingham CCG: Dental Compliant
- Mydentist - Park Avenue - Poynton, NHS Eastern Cheshire CCG: Dental Compliant
- Northway Dental Limited, NHS South Sefton CCG: Dental Compliant
- Orthoworld 2000 Taunton, NHS Somerset CCG: Dental Compliant
- Rock House Dental Practice, NHS Somerset CCG: Dental Compliant
- Scott Arms Dental Practice, NHS Sandwell and West Birmingham CCG: Dental Compliant
- Smith Dental Practice - Bakewell, NHS North Derbyshire CCG: Dental Compliant
- St Mark Crown Court Dental Clinic, NHS Medway CCG: Dental Compliant
- Highfields Dental Practice (Dr. Salar Jasim Mohamad), NHS South Cheshire CCG: Dental Breach
- Woodlands Dental Practice, NHS Somerset CCG: Dental Breach
CQC’s new approach to inspecting dental services:
CQC’s approach to inspecting dental services uses specially trained dental inspectors, accompanied by specialist advisors who are usually 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.
Professor Steve Field, Chief Inspector of General Practice (Primary Medical Services and Integrated Care Directorate), 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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