You will never know when your inspection is due to take place until you receive that email or phone call. So you need to be working to a high standard at all times to ensure you are always ready and prepared.
Care Quality Commission or CQC inspectors will use 5 sets of standards to inspect dental practices.

These are:

• Safe which means that you are protected from abuse and avoidable harm.
• Effective which means that your care, support and treatment achieves good outcomes, helps you to maintain quality of life and is based on the best available evidence.
• Caring means that your staff involve and treat you with compassion, dignity and respect.
• Responsive means your services are organised so that they meet your needs.
• Well-led means that the governance, leadership, management and the organisation make sure it’s providing high-quality care that is based on your individual needs. It also encourages innovation and learning, and it promotes a fair and open culture.

One important point to consider when preparing for a CQC inspection, is to consider moving to digital methods for quality and compliance. Many dental practices, no matter what kind of type of service they provide, still use paper-based methods. Using our DPP system, you can move all of your auditing, risk assessments and incidentsto one central place where it is easy to pull reports for a CQC visit.

How does Dental Professional Portal (DPP) help with dental compliance?

DPP will ensure that you practice is always ready for a CQC inspection. Our user-friendly online application offers peace of mind by providing easy access to regulatory updates and essential documentation, ensuring that you are prepared for any CQC inspection visit.

1) By removing paper-based working

You might need to provide some evidence to the CQC that you record every relevant incident or event that happens in your practice, for example,failure to check a patient’s records and medical history incorrect treatment plans. Or are all of the Dentists and Hygienists records up to date?

Using the DPP system, you can digitise all aspects of compliance such as incident management and auditing as this improves patient safety and makes the lives of your practice staff easier, but it also helps boost your CQC rating.

2) It reduces administration time for your staff!

By moving to digital, this will help you staff save time on administration and spend more time on what they joined the profession for:i.e. caring for patients.

DPP will provide your staff with online training so your staff can get up and running as soon as possible, and will soon see and reap the benefits of going digital.

3) It will help to protect your name and brand!

Nowadays, anyone can access CQC ratings and may use this information whether to register with your practice or not. So it is important that your practice has a good reputation, to both maintain and attract new patients.  Using DPP, our portal will not only help retain your staff as it will make their job so much easier, but it will also improve your CQC rating.

4) Keep on top of your multiple practice data!

If you have several dentist practices, you will recognise that knowing what is going on at each location is imperative.The easiest way to have oversight of your practices is to implement the DPP software which will show you everything you need in one place.

DPP has customisable dashboards which will indicate what the state of each practice is in real-time. So should  you need to check that staff in a particular location are all up to date on their training, or see which improvement plans need implementing at another practice, this can all be done very simply and quickly. DPP will help your staff efficiently manage and track compliance for both single and multiple practices, allowing you to achieve your goals more effectively and efficiently.

Key Features of DPP:

• Shares policies and procedures with your staff.
• Upload bulk compliance documents quickly and easily.
• Manage practice compliance documents effortlessly.
• Identify missing or expired information through our report management.
• Access all policies and procedures based on CQC standards.

At DPP, we strongly believe our portal can support you to achieve the best possible rating for your agency.For further information about how Dental Professional Portal can help get you prepared for your CQC inspection today, sign up for a free trial today! Dental Professional Portal

Managing a dental practice can be a challenging task, and it requires a lot of coordination and organization. Dental practices need to manage a variety of tasks, including HR, financial, and compliance management. However, executing these tasks can prove to be both time-consuming and complex. Without the appropriate tools and resources, it becomes arduous to effectively monitor and keep track of every crucial aspect.

One solution that can help to manage these tasks more effectively is an HR, financial, and compliance management system. A system that combines all three functions can provide a more streamlined and integrated approach to managing a dental practice.

Here are some of the reasons why every dental practice needs an HR, financial, and compliance management system:

Efficient HR Management:

A comprehensive HR management system can help to manage employee records, payroll, benefits, and other HR-related tasks. By automating these processes, dental practices can save time and reduce errors, leading to more efficient HR management.

Better Financial Management:

A financial management system can help dental practices manage their finances more effectively, including accounts payable and receivable, budgeting, and financial reporting. By providing real-time financial information, dental practices can make better-informed decisions and optimize their financial performance.

Improved Compliance Management:

Compliance management is a critical aspect of running a dental practice, and it requires strict adherence to regulations and standards. An HR, financial, and compliance management system can help dental practices stay on top of compliance requirements, including CQC, NHS, GDC, ICO, and BDA regulatory standards.

Enhanced Security:

By consolidating HR, financial, and compliance management into a single system, dental practices can enhance their data security. The system can provide access controls, audit trails, and other security measures to protect sensitive data.

Increased Efficiency:

By streamlining HR, financial, and compliance management tasks into a single system, dental practices can increase efficiency and reduce the time and effort required to manage these functions. This can free up time for dental professionals to focus on patient care and other critical aspects of running a dental practice.

In conclusion, an HR, financial, and compliance management system can provide dental practices with a more streamlined and integrated approach to managing their operations. By automating and consolidating these functions, practices can save time, reduce errors, and improve their overall performance.

The SME Climate Hub was created as an initiative to help small and medium-sized businesses take robust climate action and join the United Nations Race to Zero. Though any single SME’s climate impact may seem insignificant, the combined effect of investing in the climate journey is quite sizable since SMEs make up 90% of business worldwide.

In 2022, The SME Climate Hub conducted a survey on 194 of their business members across the world to reveal that two-thirds of small businesses were concerned over revolving climate action.The survey found that small businesses are stepping up in the fight against climate change, but due to lack of resources needed, they weren’t able to full invest in their climate journey.

Using Dental Professional Portal’s, advanced online platform, we can help your dental practice to get well on its way to reducing carbon emissions by using our SME Climate Hub Committed 2023 system.

DPP Helps Reduce Paper Waste

Dental Practices are being encouraged to go paperless and use more digital patient management and tools. By becoming a paperless practice, it is a great way of promoting sustainability. In this current time where everything can be digitised, paper seems like an unnecessary waste of resources. In fact, paper wastes account for around one quarter of total waste at landfills. In addition to this, paper production causes deforestation and uses a huge amounts of water and electricity.
DPP will help you become completely paperless by using our financial and HR management processes.

For your practice, DPP can reduce your energy consumption

During this current climate, using unnecessary energy is something that Dental Practices want to avoid doing. By removing scanning, manual data entry and printing from your employees workflow are just a few ways that DPP can help make your practice more energy efficient and environmentally friendly.

These are just a few ways where DPP can help your surgery reduce its carbon emissions. Find out more how DPP can help benefit your Dental Practice by taking advantage of our FREE 30 DAY trial.

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