Archived: Elephant & Castle Dental Clinic

Updated 2 December 2016

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 an announced, focused inspection on 11 November 2016. This inspection was carried out to check that improvements to meet legal requirements planned by the practice after our comprehensive inspection on 23 June 2016 had been made.

We inspected the practice against three of the five questions we ask about services: is the service safe?; is the service effective?; and is the service well-led? This is because the service was not previously meeting some legal requirements.

The focused inspection was led by a CQC inspector and a dental specialist advisor.

During our inspection visit, we checked that points described in the provider’s action plan had been implemented by looking at a range of documents, such as risk assessments and audits. We also carried out a tour of the premises and spoke with members of staff.

Updated 2 December 2016

We carried out a follow-up inspection on 11 November 2016 at Elephant & Castle Dental Clinic.

We had undertaken an unannounced comprehensive inspection of this service on 23 June 2016 as part of our regulatory functions where breaches of legal requirements were 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 breaches. This report only covers our findings in relation to those requirements.

We reviewed the practice against three of the five questions we ask about services: is the service safe, effective and well-led?

We revisited Elephant & Castle Dental Clinic as part of this review and checked whether they had followed their action plan.

You can read the report from our last comprehensive inspection by selecting the 'all reports' link for    Elephant & Castle Dental Clinic on our website at www.cqc.org.uk.