Swakeleys Dental Practice

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• Overview
• Assessing needs
• Delivering evidence-based care and treatment
• How staff, teams and services work together
• Supporting people to live healthier lives
• Monitoring and improving outcomes
• Consent to care and treatment

We found this practice was providing effective care in accordance with the relevant regulations and had taken into consideration appropriate guidance.

The provider had made improvements in relation to the regulatory breaches we found at our assessment on 13 September 2024.

Find out what we look at when we assess this area in our information about our new Single assessment framework.

The judgement for Assessing needs is based on the latest evidence we assessed for the Effective key question.

At the assessment on 14 March 2025, we found the practice had made the following improvements to comply with the regulations:

Improvements had been made to clinicians` understanding of the new staging and grading system for the management of periodontal patients, guidelines for antibiotic prophylaxis for endocarditis patients, antimicrobial prescribing, management of patients on anticoagulants and the use of rubber dam. Further improvements could be made to ensure clinicians provided a clear rationale in the patient care notes if they diverted from nationally recognised guidance.

Clinicians had an improved understanding of their responsibilities under the Mental Capacity Act 2005, the concept of Gillick competency and parental consent.

We noted that improvements had been made to the practice record keeping standards. Further improvements could be made to ensure the information recorded in these patient care records was in line with recognised guidance.

The judgement for How staff, teams and services work together is based on the latest evidence we assessed for the Effective key question.

The judgement for Supporting people to live healthier lives is based on the latest evidence we assessed for the Effective key question.

The judgement for Monitoring and improving outcomes is based on the latest evidence we assessed for the Effective key question.

The judgement for Consent to care and treatment is based on the latest evidence we assessed for the Effective key question.