Archived: Acre Lane Dental Care

Updated 25 November 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 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014.

We carried out an inspection of this service on 7 October 2016.

This inspection was carried out to check that improvements to meet legal requirements planned by the practice after our comprehensive inspection on 10 March 2016 had been made. We reviewed the practice against two of the five questions we ask about services: is the service safe and is this service well-led? This is because the service was not previously meeting two of the legal requirements.

The inspection was led by a CQC inspector who was accompanied by a dental specialist advisor. During our inspection visit, we checked that the provider’s action plan had been implemented by looking at a range of documents such as risk assessments, audits, staff records and policies.  We also spoke with staff and carried out a tour of the premises.

Updated 25 November 2016

We carried out a follow- up inspection on 7 October 2016 at Acre Lane Dental Care.

We had undertaken an announced comprehensive inspection of this service on 10 March 2016 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 two of the five questions we ask about services: is the service safe and well-led?

We revisited Acre Lane Dental Care as part of this review and checked whether they had followed their action plan and 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 practice protocol for ensuring equipment is regularly serviced.