News from Charlbury Dental Practice
Dental implants
1 February 2012
Since Kam Patel has joined the team, we are able to offer implants to our patients. Kam has been keeping at the forefront of developments in this area, undertaking a 4-year course in Implant Dentistry at the Eastman Dental Hospital.
Implants can provide an excellent long-lasting solution for patients with missing teeth and for many provide a welcome alternative to dentures.
Fluoride varnish prevents decay
23 January 2012
Emma Mortimer, one of our most experienced dental nurses, has successfully completed a course at the Oxford Deanery's Dental School which qualifies her to apply fluoride varnish to the teeth of both adults and children. This qualification is a recent innovation from the Department of Health, aimed at prevention of dental decay and treating small, early cavities in children, hopefully so that fillings can be avoided altogether.
Watch the website and displays in the waiting room for more information from Emma on this exciting new approach to dental care for your child!
A new dentist
20 January 2012
We are delighted to welcome a new Dentist to the practice. Dr Kamini (Kam) Patel is moving to Charlbury from South London. Kam followed in Mary Robson's footsteps, gaining her dental qualification from Kings College London in 1997 and holding a hospital post there before entering General Practice.
Kam is taking the place of Michael who is moving on to pastures new after more than 20 years with Charlbury Dental Practice. We will miss him but are excited about the opportunities ahead for us all.
Spring Newsletter
3rd January 2012
The New Year sees the publication of our Spring Newsletter. We plan to issue a regular quarterly newsletter to tell you about any developments and plans we have for the practice.
We aim to make your visits to the dentist as pleasant as possible and to provide the best possible treatment to meet your particular needs; this means us keeping up to date with all technical developments and continuously improving how we look after you and your teeth. You can pick up our latest Newsletter from the practice if you haven't received one in your letterbox.
Focus on cleanliness
5 December 2011
At Charlbury Dental Practice cleanliness is paramount and we take all possible measures to guard against cross-infection. We have completely upgraded our decontamination facility and appointed a Decontamination Nurse. Renae Liddell joins the team to manage our new facility and takes on sterilising and support duties to assist our team of Registered Dental Nurses. One of our Dental Nurses, Emma Mortimer, has this week successfully completed an updating course in Infection Control.
New receptionist joins the team at the front desk
28 November 2011
We welcome Carolyn Ramsay to our team. Carolyn has many years' experience in Dental Practice Management and Administration. She is joining us only temporarily to help us out at a busy time as she has plans to go travelling next year. We look forward to hearing her stories.
New CQC (Care Quality Commission) registration has been successfully achieved!
10 June 2011
We're really pleased to announce that we have successfully achieved CQC registration. The aims of the CQC are to ensure all providers of health and social care operate to a single consistent set of standards and to offer service users a single information source about providers.
A dentist must comply with CQC outcomes for all of its service types. The more complex the dental practice the more detailed the outcomes that are likely to apply.
The CQC has set out 16 main registration requirements:
- Care and welfare of service users
- Assessing and monitoring the quality of provision
- Safeguarding vulnerable service users
- Management of medicines and medical devices
- Cleanliness and infection control
- Meeting nutritional needs
- Safety and suitability of premises
- Safety, availability and suitability of equipment
- Respecting and involving service users
- Consent to care and treatment
- Complaints
- Records
- Competence and suitability of workers
- Staffing
- Effective management of workers
- Cooperating with other providers.
