{"id":112274,"date":"2025-09-03T19:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T19:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/112274\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T19:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T19:50:10","slug":"the-dental-care-centre-little-lever-gets-cqc-rating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/112274\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dental Care Centre Little Lever gets CQC rating"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n The Dental Care Centre Little Lever was visited by the Care Quality Commission (CQC)<\/a> on July 11.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

\n The dentists<\/a>, which was formerly just known as The Dental Care Centre, was rated for the first time since changing its name.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

\n For the five different categories – safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led – the service was rated as ‘regulations met’.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

\n The service was not given a critical rating from ‘outstanding’ to ‘inadequate’ as the CQC does not have the legal power to rate dentists.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

\n ‘Regulations met’ means a service provider has not\u00a0“found any breaches” in the areas, and that they are\u00a0not demanding change from the provider.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

\n A service provider that is breaching regulations would get a ‘not all regulations met’ rating, in which the CQC would expect the provider to make a change.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

\n Read more:\u00a0Hospital recognised for helping to prevent life-changing condition in preterm babies<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\n Read more:\u00a0‘They’re so fabulous and caring’ – Positive watchdog rating for care service<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\n Read more:\u00a0‘I was 35 and was not overly concerned. We were really shocked’<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\n The report for The Dental Care Centre Little Lever says: “The practice had systems in place to manage risk but improvements should be made to ensure effectiveness and adherence to guidance.\n<\/p>\n

\n “Staff had the skills, knowledge and experience to carry out their roles. Recruitment procedures reflected current legislation and there was effective leadership and a culture of continuous improvement.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

\n “Staff provided care and treatment in line with current guidance. They treated patients with dignity and respect and ensured access to care, support, and treatment when required.\n<\/p>\n

\n “There was step-free access to the practice and on-street car parking spaces were available near the practice.”\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

\n It also listed feedback from users of The Dental Care Centre Little Lever.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

\n The report says: “On the day of our inspection, we saw patient feedback, collected by the practice, from a number of additional patients. Patient feedback provided a positive view of the dental team and care provided by the practice.”\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

\n Comments from patients included: \u201cAll good, no problems\u201d, \u201cFriendly and informative\u201d, \u201cAs always the hygienist and dentist were friendly and put me at ease. The appointments were on time. A simple and easy experience\u201d, \u201cThe dentist was polite and informative\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dental Care Centre Little Lever was visited by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) on July 11.\u00a0 The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-112274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}