Perfect Smile Reading Dental Sedation Clinic

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• Overview
• Learning culture
• Safe systems, pathways and transitions
• Safeguarding
• Involving people to manage risks
• Safe environments
• Safe and effective staffing
• Infection prevention and control
• Medicines optimisation

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 27 November 2024.

Find out what we look at when we assess this area in our information about our new Single assessment framework.

The judgement for Learning culture is based on the latest evidence we assessed for the Safe key question.

The judgement for Safe systems, pathways and transitions is based on the latest evidence we assessed for the Safe key question.

The judgement for Safeguarding is based on the latest evidence we assessed for the Safe key question.

The judgement for Involving people to manage risks is based on the latest evidence we assessed for the Safe key question.

At the inspection on 18 September 2025, we found the practice had made the following improvements to comply with the regulation:

The practice had reviewed and improved their policies and procedures in relation to the delivery of conscious sedation. These included clearer protocols for assessing patients prior to sedation and the recovery period following treatment. There were arrangements to review these to ensure they were embedded and followed.

The sedation policies and procedures had been reviewed to consider potential risks when using a combination of sedation medicines, where appropriate. The assessment documents clearly indicated the rationale for using a combination of these medicines.

The policies and risk assessments had been reviewed to take into account specific measures for dealing with medical emergencies when a patient had been sedated.

The practice procedures had been improved so that incidents where reversal medicines were used during sedation were now considered as significant events, there were arrangements to ensure that these events would be investigated; and learning used to reduce these incidents.

There were systems to monitor medicines used in sedation as part of the procedures for delivering safe care.

At the inspection on 18 September 2025, we found the practice had made the following improvements to comply with the regulation:

Staff had training in immediate life support and conscious sedation. Training was monitored to ensure that all staff completed periodic refresher updates.

The practice ensured that there were suitable numbers of trained staff when carrying out sedation.

Staff had access to the practice policies and procedures in relation to the provision of sedation. Improvements had been introduced to ensure that staff fully understood the practice procedures and how to report if these were not being followed. Staff were aware that incidents where medicines to reverse sedation were used must be reported as significant events.

The judgement for Infection prevention and control is based on the latest evidence we assessed for the Safe key question.

The judgement for Medicines optimisation is based on the latest evidence we assessed for the Safe key question.