Warning given to Arcades Dental Practice in Sevenoaks
Arcades Dental Practice
given warning. Library picture.
A Sevenoaks dentist has been given a formal warning and ordered
to make urgent improvements.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) issued the warning to Anthony
D’Souza of Arcades Dental Practice in Argyle Road.
It follows an unannounced inspection last August.
The CQC found record-keeping was inadequate at the practice,
placing people at risk of harm.
Staff records were not stored on site and were not made
available for inspectors to check against other evidence provided.
Medicines records were also inadequate, the inspection found, as
were fire safety records.
Ian Biggs, deputy director of CQC in the South, said: “We check the
national standards of quality and safety in care that the law says
everyone should be able to expect.
"These standards exist to protect people who cannot always speak
up for themselves from being put at risk of harm. Providers have a
duty to be compliant.
He said the commission's inspectors would return in the near
future to carry out another unannounced inspection.
He added: "If we find that the surgery is not making the
required progress we won’t hesitate to use our legal powers further
to protect the people who use its services.”
02/01/13
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