Cramlington Dental Centre

Updated 20 July 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 a review of this service on 4 July 2016. This review was carried out to check that improvements to meet legal requirements planned by the surgery after our comprehensive inspection on 8 December 2015 had been made. We reviewed the practice against one of the five questions we ask about services: is it well-led? This is because the service was not previously meeting two of the legal requirements under the well-led domain.

At the previous, comprehensive inspection on 8 December 2015 we found that the practice was not well-led because the practice had not undertaken some clinical governance processes such as infection control audits, clinical record keeping audits, X-ray audits or formal annual appraisals of staff.

The review was led by a CQC inspector who had access to remote advice from a specialist advisor.

During our review, we checked that the provider’s action plan had been implemented. We reviewed a range of documents provided by Cramlington Dental Centre

Updated 20 July 2016

We carried out an announced comprehensive inspection of this service on 8 December 2015 as part of our regulatory functions where a breach of legal requirements was found. After the comprehensive inspection, the surgery wrote to us to say what they would do to meet the legal requirements in relation to the breach.

We followed up on our inspection of 8 December 2015 to check that the surgery had implemented their plan and to confirm that they now met the legal requirements. We carried out a desk based review on 4 July 2016 to check whether the practice had taken action to address a breach of Regulations 17(1) (2) (a) and (b) and 18(2)(a) of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014.

This report only covers our findings in relation to those requirements. We have not revisited Cramlington Dental Centre for this review because the practice were able to demonstrate that they were meeting the standards without the need for a visit.

Our findings were:

Are services well-led?

We found that this practice was providing well-led care in accordance with the relevant regulations.

You can read the report from our last comprehensive inspection, by selecting the 'all reports' link for Cramlington Dental Centre on our website at www.cqc.org.uk.