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Decon Pete – how to ensure ultrasonic cleaners meet UK guidance requirements
Decon Pete explains how to ensure you are meeting UK guidance requirements with your ultrasonic cleaners and what records to…
Dentistry
CQC now requires registration from remote orthodontic providers
Providers of remote orthodontic devices now have to register with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) in order to legally practise. …
Orthodontics
Ensuring your air supply is inspection-ready
Dentalair Utilities explains how it can help you keep your air supply inspection-ready, should the CQC ever call. It goes…
Dentistry
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How can dentistry stay sustainable during the pandemic?
Sustainability in dentistry is more pressing than ever following the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, says Nadine Bellamy-Thomas, Miele’s national…
Dentistry
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Home sweet home – domiciliary care for vulnerable dental patients
Debbie Ganguli answers some questions about providing appropriate, effective care for vulnerable patients in a domiciliary setting. As healthcare professionals,…
Oral health
Dental news you’ve missed this week
Missed out on this week’s dental news? No problem, here’s what happened over the past seven days… Dental practices should…
Dentistry
CQC log jam creating ‘significant’ delays in dental practice sales
Dentists are experiencing significant delays of between 16-20 weeks in registration changes at the CQC. In a letter to the…
Dentistry
Recruiting the right staff
The safe recruitment of staff is high on the Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) agenda. In this article, Nicki Rowland discusses…
Orthodontics
Air Supply from Dentalair – sterile air made simple
Dentalair introduces its Air Supply service that aims to make sterile air supply to dental practices simple and cost effective.…
Dentistry
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COVID-19 magnified inequalities in primary care, says CQC report
The COVID-19 pandemic helped to highlight inequalities in health and social care, according to the Care Quality Commission (CQC). In…
Dentistry
Dental news you’ve missed this week
Missed out on this week’s dental news? No problem, here’s what happened over the past seven days… Leicester dentists told…
Dentistry
CQC to discuss registration repayment options
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) will discuss repayment options if practices are struggling to pay their registration fees, a meeting…
Dentistry
The dental practice that stayed open during lockdown
A dentist who kept her practice open to treat patients during lockdown has spoken out about why it was important…
Dentistry
Life during and after lockdown as a new practice owner
When the lockdown was announced, Mihir Shah had only been a practice owner for 18 months. Here he explains his…
Private Practice
Dental news you’ve missed this week
Missed out on this week’s dental news? No problem, here’s what happened over the past seven days… Dentistry kicks off…
Dentistry
Law firm launches legal challenge against CQC on behalf of private dentists
Laura Pearce is a solicitor at JFH Law, which is representing private dentists in a new legal challenge against the…
Dentistry
Preparing to reopen – the importance of training and diary zoning
Michael Bentley talks to Les Jones about what practice owners and managers, if they have not been furloughed, can do…
Dentistry
COVID-19 – candour, censorship, conspiracy or compromise again?
Tony Kilcoyne questions how we can trust anything we’re told during COVID-19 when dentists are given misleading or misspoken advice.…
Dentistry
CQC suspends inspections in response to coronavirus
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has stopped routine inspections as the UK confirms more than 1,500 cases of coronavirus. Starting…
Dentistry
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