Archived: Claremont Dental Practice

Updated 3 January 2017

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 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014.

We carried out a review of this service on 15 December 2016 to check that improvements to meet legal requirements planned by the practice after our comprehensive inspection on 13 October 2015 had been made. We reviewed the practice against one of the five questions we ask about services: is this service well-led?

The review was undertaken by a CQC inspector.

During our inspection we checked that the provider’s action plan had been implemented by looking at a range of documents such as risk assessments, audits, and policies.  We also spoke with the manager of the practice on the telephone.

Updated 3 January 2017

We carried out a follow- up inspection on 15 December 2016 at Claremont Dental Practice.

We had undertaken an announced comprehensive inspection of this service on 13 October 2015 as part of our regulatory functions where a breach of legal requirements was found.

After the comprehensive inspection, the practice wrote to us to say what they would do to meet the legal requirements in relation to the breach. This report only covers our findings in relation to those requirements and we reviewed the practice against one of the five questions we ask about services: is the service well-led?

This was a desktop review and we did not revisit Claremont Dental Practice as part of this review. We checked whether they had followed their action plan and requested documents from the provider to confirm that they now met the legal requirements.

We found that this practice was now providing safe and well-led care in accordance with the relevant regulations.

However, there were areas where the provider could make improvements and should:

• Review the protocol for completing accurate, complete and detailed records relating to employment of staff.