Updated 7 January 2016
We carried out this inspection under Section 60 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 as part of our regulatory functions. This inspection was planned to check whether the practice was meeting the legal requirements and regulations associated with the Health and Social Care Act 2008.
We carried out a review of this service on 7 December 2015. This review was carried out to check that improvements to meet legal requirements planned by the practice after our comprehensive inspection on 26 May 2015 had been made. We reviewed the practice against one of the five questions we ask about services: is the service well-led? This is because the service was not previously meeting one of the legal requirements.
The review was led by a CQC inspector who had access to remote advice from a dental specialist advisor.
During our review, we spoke with the principal dentist and checked that the provider’s action plan had been implemented. We reviewed a range of documents including: recruitment references. logs for fire drills, purchase receipt for a fire extinguisher, completed fire risk assessment, purchase receipt for an oropharyngeal airway and oxygen mask. We also reviewed evidence of basic life support training for staff, updated complaints procedure and a policy on the importance of using rubber dam for root canal treatments.