Updated 18 April 2018
We carried out this focused inspection of Oak Tree Dental Practice to follow up concerns we originally identified during a comprehensive inspection at the practice on 28 September 2016 under Section 60 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 as part of our regulatory functions.
At a comprehensive inspection we always ask the following five questions to get to the heart of patients’ experiences of care and treatment:
- Is it safe?
- Is it effective?
- Is it caring?
- Is it responsive to people’s needs?
- Is it well-led?
When one or more of the five questions is 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.
At the previous comprehensive inspection, we found the registered provider was providing safe, effective, caring and responsive care in accordance with relevant regulations. We judged the practice was not providing well-led care in accordance with Regulation 17 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 Oak Tree Dental Practice on our website www.cqc.org.uk.
This inspection was carried out on 27 February 2018 by a review of documents and other evidence sent to us from the provider as requested at our previous inspection.
We also reviewed the key questions of safe and effective as we had made recommendations for the provider relating to these key questions. We noted that some improvements had been made.
Our findings were:
Are services well-led?
We found this practice was providing well-led care in accordance with the relevant regulations.
The provider had made adequate improvement to put right the shortfalls and deal with the regulatory breach we found at our inspection on 28 September 2016. The provider must ensure that the newly implemented improvements are embedded and sustained long-term in the practice.
There were areas where the provider could make improvements and should:
- Review the practice’s sharps procedures and ensure the practice is in compliance with the Health and Safety (Sharp Instruments in Healthcare) Regulations 2013.