CQC compliance is a hot topic these days in Dental Practices! We often dread the phone call with a looming inspection and we scrabble around to make sure all our paperwork is in place! Having someone visiting your practice to treat patients is often a worry, are...
Hi Rob, Just to say thank you very much for taking good care of me yesterday. I don't remember a thing! But I feel much better coming out of it than the last time I was sedated, which was a big worry for me. Cheers again! This was a...
Following a recent CQC inspection, where again they focused heavily on sedation, a recommendation from the inspector was for the practices to do more basic pre-operative assessments, assessing the suitability for sedation. I created a form a few years ago which I’ve attached to this...
People are surprising and rarely behave like the textbooks! I was reminded of this again today whilst working on a patient who was terrified of dentists. We often carry out anxiety assessments on our patients. We use the Modified Dental Anxiety Scale and then the...