The Care Quality Commission published reports on the quality of care provided by 27 dental practices in England last week.
The practices that we have reported on are:
- Acorn Villas Dental Practice, Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven: Meeting Standards
- Alma Terrace, Cumbria: Meeting Standards
- Chatham Dental Surgery, Medway: Meeting Standards
- Goole Surgery, East Riding of Yorkshire: Meeting Standards
- Harbour Dental Practice, South Cheshire: Meeting Standards
- Heathfield Dental Clinic, Croydon: Meeting Standards
- Hillbrook Dental Health Centre, Birmingham South and Central: Meeting Standards
- Homewood Dental Care, Basildon and Brentwood: Meeting Standards
- Homewood Dental Practice, Basildon and Brentwood: Meeting Standards
- Howden Surgery, East Riding of Yorkshire: Meeting Standards
- Hungarian DentaCare Ltd, Wandsworth: Meeting Standards
- Kyrle Street Dental Practice, Herefordshire: Meeting Standards
- Macfarlane Dental Practice - Whalley, East Lancashire: Meeting Standards
- Mint Dental Ambleside, Cumbria: Meeting Standards
- Mydentist - Lowmoor Road - Kirkby in Ashfield, Mansfield and Ashfield: Meeting Standards
- Mydentist - Victoria Place - Carlise, Cumbria: Meeting Standards
- Oasis Dental Care - Cleveleys, Fylde & Wyre: Meeting Standards
- Orthoworld 2000 Chelmsford, Mid Essex: Meeting Standards
- Pembroke Dental Practice and Implant Centre, Crawley: Meeting Standards
- Sprotbrough Dental Practice, Doncaster: Meeting Standards
- The Vale Dental Clinic, Barnet: Meeting Standards
- Timberhill Dental Practice Limited, East Surrey: Meeting Standards
- Westwoodside Dental Practice, North Lincolnshire: Meeting Standards
- Fishermead Dental Surgery, Milton Keynes: Not meeting standards
- Hockley Dental Laboratory & Surgery, Castle Point and Rochford: Not meeting standards
- J M Worsley Dental Practice, Cumbria: Not meeting standards
- S Kirkup Dental Surgeon - Frederick Street South, North Durham: Not meeting standards
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.
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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