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Dental Tribune United Kingdom Edition

www.thedbg.co.uk For more information and a quote contact the DBG on 0845 00 66 112 Please Note: Errors and omissions excluded. Any prices quoted are subject to VAT. The DBG reserves the right to alter or withdraw any of their services at any time without prior notice. Are you waiting to find out when the Care Quality Commission* inspect your practice? Your compliance with Clinical Governance and Patient Outcomes will be questioned with the introduction of the Care Quality Commission*, HTM 01-05 and the increase in PCT practice inspections. Would you like to know how you would fare when your practice is inspected and have the opportunity to take corrective action? The DBG Clinical Governance Assessment is the all important experience of a practice audit visit rather than the reliance on a self audit which can lead to a false sense of compliance. The assessment is designed to give you reassurance that you have fulfilled your obligations and highlight any potential problems. We will provide help and advice on the latest guidance throughout the visit. • Your premises including access, facilities, security, fire precautions, third parties and business continuity plans. • Information governance including Freedom of Information Act, manual and computerised records, Data Protection and security. • Training, documentation and certificates. • Radiography including IRR99 and IR(ME)R2000 compliance. • Cross infection and decontamination including HTM 01-05 compliance and surgery audits. • Medical emergencies including resuscitation, drugs, equipments and protocols. • Training, documentation and certificates. • Waste disposal and documentation and storage. • Practice policies and written procedures. • Clinical audit and patient outcomes including quality measures. The assessment will take approximately four hours of your Practice Manager’s time depending on the number of surgeries and we will require access to all areas of your practice. A report will be despatched to you confirming the results of our assessment. If you have an inspection imminent then we suggest that you arrange your DBG assessment at least one month before the inspection to allow you time to carry out any recommendations if required. Following the assessment you may wish to have access to the DBG Clinical Governance Package with on-line compliance manuals. The areas the DBG assesses are: Clinical Governance including Patient Quality Measures - Is your practice compliant? Have you addressed all 28 CQC outcomes? ? *England only. 20YEARSYEARS 20 9361 DBG ClinicalGov The probe 338x244.qxd:Layout 1 1/7/10 13:39 Page 1 H aven’t come across a dentist yet who doesn’t have a strong opin- ion on the dental contracts which came into force in April 2006: A quick trawl of the BBC news archives is a great ba- rometer of the strength of feel- ing with headlines ranging from ‘NHS dentistry set back 20 years’ through to ‘Abscess rise amid dental crisis’ and eve- rything in between. For me, personally I had huge issues with constraints, which I felt were being put upon me to deliver the qual- ity of care that I felt my patients deserved. Going private was the natural transition from what I was doing already so that it wasn’t a big deal. By 2006 I’d built up the busi- ness in Fleetwood, Lancashire to seven dentists and thera- pists. Pui-Ling Tsoi had also be- come my business partner and we bought the next-door build- ing and expanded the practice and quickly took the number of dental professionals up to 11. And that was it – we’d reached the absolute capacity of our ex- isting location. Opportunity But we wanted to expand. So when the new contracts came in it gave us the opportunity to review what we wanted from the business and how we were going to grow it. It still sounds flippant when I say it now, but I approached one of the UK’s leading super- markets to discuss the idea of putting practices inside their emporiums. Not only did I manage to get my foot through the door but I got to a point where they put an offer on the table. It still brings a wry smile to my face to this day thinking how much I’d achieved simply getting to that point. But the offer wasn’t right and simply didn’t take us in the direction we wanted to go. So it wasn’t actually that hard a de- cision to step away and recon- sider our options again. Eureka Moment We mulled it over for a few months and then during a break away from it all I had that January 24-30, 201112 Feature United Kingdom Edition The ‘third way’ to open a dental practice Dental Tribune speaks to Ideal Dental Care’s Peter Thompson and looks how an idea sparked in the Mid-Atlantic began a rollercoaster journey into practice ownership ‘For me, personally I had huge issues with constraints, which I felt were be- ing put upon me to deliver the quality of care that I felt my patients deserved. ’ Peter Thompson