Updated 11 July 2019
We undertook a focused inspection of Cottenham Dental Practice on 28 June 2019. This inspection was carried out to review in detail the actions taken by the registered provider to improve the quality of care and to confirm that the practice was now meeting legal requirements.
We had undertaken a comprehensive inspection 11 December 2018 under Section 60 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 as part of our regulatory functions. We found the registered provider was not providing safe care in accordance with the relevant regulations of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014. You can read our report of that inspection by selecting the 'all reports' link for Cottenham Dental Practice on our website www.cqc.org.uk.
When one or more of the five questions are not met we require the service to make improvements and send us an action plan. We then inspect again after a reasonable interval, focusing on the areas where improvement was required.
As part of this inspection we asked:
- Is it safe
Our findings were:
Are services safe?
We found this practice was providing safe care in accordance with the relevant regulations.
The provider had made improvements in relation to the regulatory breach we found at our inspection on 11 December 2019. These must be embedded and sustained in the long-term.
Background
Wiese and Associates Dental Practice is a well-established practice based in Cottenham that provides mostly private dental treatment to about 2,200 patients. The dental team includes three part-time dentists, two dental nurses and two reception staff. There is a practice manager based at the provider’s other service who assists in the running of the practice. There is one treatment room.
The practice opens on Mondays to Fridays from 9 am to 5.30 pm, and on Saturday mornings by arrangement.
The practice is owned by an individual who is the principal dentist there. They have legal responsibility for meeting the requirements in the Health and Social Care Act 2008 and associated regulations about how the practice is run.