Greg Gossayn Dental Surgery

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• Overview
• Assessing needs
• Delivering evidence-based care and treatment
• How staff, teams and services work together
• Supporting people to live healthier lives
• Monitoring and improving outcomes
• Consent to care and treatment

We found this practice was providing effective care in accordance with the relevant regulations and had taken into consideration appropriate guidance.

The provider had made improvements in relation to the regulatory breach we found at our inspection on 15 January 2025.

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The judgement for Assessing needs is based on the latest evidence we assessed for the Effective key question.

At the inspection on 9 May 2025, we found the practice had made the following improvements to comply with the regulations:

We looked at 5 patient care records. Dental care records had improved and were broadly in line with the College of General Dentistry’s good practice guidance regarding clinical examination and record keeping. We saw evidence that clinical staff documented that they had carried out oral cancer screening. Staff obtained patients’ verbal consent for treatment. However, whilst we saw evidence that this was recorded in patient records, we did not see any forms of signed consent in the records we reviewed.

The practice offered dental implants. Staff had access to the appropriate equipment for the placement of implants. We found patient care records outlined the costs involved of each treatment plan. The compliance manager informed us that an information sheet had recently been introduced which included details on the risks and benefits of implant treatment and told us these would be given to all patients considering implant treatment, so they were fully informed.

We saw evidence the dentist justified, graded and reported on the radiographs they took, in line with Guidance notes for dental practitioners on the safe use of X-ray equipment issued by the College of General Dentistry.

The judgement for How staff, teams and services work together is based on the latest evidence we assessed for the Effective key question.

The judgement for Supporting people to live healthier lives is based on the latest evidence we assessed for the Effective key question.

The judgement for Monitoring and improving outcomes is based on the latest evidence we assessed for the Effective key question.

The judgement for Consent to care and treatment is based on the latest evidence we assessed for the Effective key question.