The Care Quality Commission published reports on the quality of care provided by 33 dental practices in England in the past week.
The practices that we have reported on are:
- Angle House Orthodontics Crouch End, Haringey: Meeting standards
- Barsar Ltd: Ascot Dental practice, Bracknell and Ascot: Meeting standards
- Belasis Dental Practice, Hartlepool and Stockton-on-Tees: Meeting standards
- Berwick Smile Dental Care, Northumberland: Meeting standards
- Bolton Road Dental Centre, Bolton: Meeting standards
- Cavendish Dental Surgery, Stockport: Meeting standards
- Chartwell Dental Clinic, Herts Valleys: Meeting standards
- Cygnet Orthodontics, North West Surrey: Meeting standards
- Dental Practice - Devon Villa, South Devon and Torbay: Meeting standards
- Enhancedental, Leeds South and East: Meeting standards
- Hextable Dental Centre, Dartford, Gravesham and Swanley: Meeting standards
- IDH Kilkenny House Taunton, Somerset: Meeting standards
- IDH Wellington, Somerset: Meeting standards
- Lifestyle Dental, Greater Preston: Meeting standards
- Lime Tree Dental Practice, North Somerset: Meeting standards
- Mydentist - Bingley Road - Saltaire, Bradford Districts: Meeting standards
- Mydentist - Hampton Court - Peterborough, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough: Meeting standards
- Mydentist - Park Avenue - Barnoldswick, East Lancashire: Meeting standards
- Mydentist - Park Road - Westhoughton, Bolton: Meeting standards
- Oasis Dental Care Southern - Cambridge, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough: Meeting standards
- Parkfield Dental, Berrow Health Campus, Somerset: Meeting standards
- Sileby Family Dental Centre, West Leicestershire: Meeting standards
- St Andrew's Dental Care, Bury: Meeting standards
- Stow-on-the-Wold Dental Practice, Gloucestershire: Meeting standards
- The Dental Surgery, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough: Meeting standards
- The Forge Dental Surgery, Gloucestershire: Meeting standards
- Vidadent Practice, Tower Hamlets: Meeting standards
- Wells Hill Dental Surgery, Bath and North East Somerset: Meeting standards
- WeLoveTeeth, North West Surrey: Meeting standards
- West Street Dental Practice, Bedfordshire: Meeting standards
- Wetheral Dental Practice, Cumbria: Meeting standards
- Dental Harmony, Redbridge: Not meeting standards
- K. Elias, Dental Surgery, Haringey: 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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