The Care Quality Commission published reports on the quality of care provided by 27 dental practices in England in the past week.
The practices that we have reported on are:
- A Primary Dental Practice, Thanet: Meeting standards
- Berwick Smile Dental Care, Northumberland: Meeting standards
- Bigby Street Dental Practice, North Lincolnshire: Meeting standards
- Drakes Dental Care - Longridge, Greater Preston: Meeting standards
- Duffield Road Dental Care, Southern Derbyshire: Meeting standards
- Eccleston Dental Practice Limited, Chorley and South Ribble: Meeting standards
- Eccleston Dental Practice Limited, Chorley and South Ribble: Meeting standards
- Eclipse (Batley) Limited, North Kirklees: Meeting standards
- Hob Hey Dental Centre, Warrington: Meeting standards
- Loughborough Road Dental Practice, Rushcliffe: Meeting standards
- Middle Lane Dental, Haringey: Meeting standards
- Mobberley Road Dental Practice, Eastern Cheshire: Meeting standards
- Muswell Hill Dental Practice, Haringey: Meeting standards
- Mydentist - Main Street - Keighley, Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven: Meeting standards
- Newbury Orthodontic Centre, Newbury and District: Meeting standards
- Pagham Dental Surgery, Coastal West Sussex: Meeting standards
- Park Street Dental Practice, Vale of York: Meeting standards
- Purfleet Dental Suite, Thurrock: Meeting standards
- Retford Primary Care Centre, Bassetlaw: Meeting standards
- Rudgwick Dental Practice, Horsham and Mid Sussex: Meeting standards
- Smile Dental Health Care, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough: Meeting standards
- The Implant Experts, West Kent: Meeting standards
- Chelwood Dental Surgery, Liverpool: Not meeting standards
- Dr Louise Southworth - Richmond Terrace, Blackburn with Darwen: Not meeting standards
- Strand-Dental, Coastal West Sussex: Not meeting standards
- The Hollies Dental Practice, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough: Not meeting standards
- Waters Green Dental and Implant Clinic, Eastern Cheshire: 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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