The Care Quality Commission published reports on the quality of care provided by 29 dental practices in England last week.
The practices that we have reported on are:
- Abbey Arms Dental Practice, Newham
- Acorn Dental Care, Slough
- Bank House Dental Practice, West Cheshire
- Bankhouse Dental Practice, West Cheshire
- Blue Sky Dental, Mid Essex
- Brunner Court Dental Practice, Vale Royal
- Churchview Dental Practice, Sunderland
- City Dental, Sunderland
- Cramlington Dental Centre, Northumberland
- Dental Surgery - Stonegate, Vale of York
- Deu Dental Headingley, Leeds West
- Dr Claire Rumley - Stratford Road, Birmingham CrossCity
- Easingwold Dental Care, Vale of York
- Glen Lea Dental Suite, Leeds North
- Green Street Green Dental Practice, Bromley
- Handside Dental Surgery, East and North Hertfordshire
- Levine & Leslie Dental Surgery, Leeds North
- Midland Road Dental Surgery, Bedfordshire
- Moonlight Dental Surgeries Limited, Dorset
- Mr Pravinkumar P Nana - Winlaton, Newcastle Gateshead
- Mr. Kayvan Khosravani, Brent
- Mydentist - Front Street - Arnold, Nottingham North and East
- Mydentist - Townsend House - Thetford, South Norfolk
- Rainford Orthodontic Practice, St Helens
- Saifee Dental Care, Brent
- Smile Orthodontics Yorkshire, Scarborough and Ryedale
- Wall Heath Dental Practice, Dudley
- Westmount @Silksworth Dental Surgery, Sunderland
- Westmount Dental Surgery, Sunderland
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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