\n The Care Quality Commission (CQC) served two notices to Dr Ammaad Jamil at Great Cornard Dental Practice, near Sudbury, on February 5.\n<\/p>\n
\n The notices are for failing to meet the regulations related to the safe care and treatment and well-led management at the practice.\n<\/p>\n
\n The report stated: “We found this practice was not providing safe care in accordance with the relevant regulations.\n<\/p>\n
\n “We will be following up on our concerns to ensure they have been put right by the provider.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Inspectors found that several staff members were not aware of their safeguarding responsibilities, and that recruitment procedures did not reflect current legislation.\n<\/p>\n
\n In particular, it highlighted DBS checks not being completed at the correct level for three staff members and not being completed at all for one staff member.\n<\/p>\n
\n It was also not able to show risk assessments for three staff members or a process to avert risk of Hepatitis B immunity in another instance.\n<\/p>\n
\n Meanwhile, the inspector found that leadership was not always effective and systems to support a culture of continuous improvement and development were not established.\n<\/p>\n
\n This comes as an anonymous source contacted this paper, highlighting fears over “incomplete care”.\n<\/p>\n
\n They said that patients feel “trapped” by the practice and feel unable to leave due to the lack of NHS dental availability in the area.\n<\/p>\n
\n The main concerns were patients experiencing more than a dozen appointment changes, frequent booking cancellations, poor service and limited communication.\n<\/p>\n
\n “If there were other NHS dentists taking patients, I would have left a long time ago, but there aren\u2019t, so you feel stuck”, added the anonymous patient.\n<\/p>\n
\n Meanwhile, the CQC says that the eight patients were contacted in relation to its report, which all gave positive feedback.\n<\/p>\n
\n It said: “Patients commented positively about the standards of cleanliness.<\/p>\n
“They told us they were able to book appointments within an acceptable timescale for their needs and that they had enough time during their appointment without feeling rushed.”\n<\/p>\n
\n The watchdog also added that once the practice’s shortcomings have been put right, the likelihood of further notices in the future is “low”.\n<\/p>\n
\n Dr Ammaad Jamil and Great Cornard Dental Practice have been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Care Quality Commission (CQC) served two notices to Dr Ammaad Jamil at Great Cornard Dental Practice, near…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-529962","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\/529962","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=529962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}