Call us 0161 9983630
Dash Dental Care, 76 Church Road
Northenden, Manchester  M22 4NW

Accreditations and Policies

Everyone at our practice recognises how vital your dental health is to you.

It's because we understand this that we constantly strive to apply the very best standards in all that we do. Our commitment to quality has been recognised by external organizations.


BDA Good Practice Scheme

BDA Good Practice

                       

The practice is a member of the Good Practice Scheme run by the British Dental Association. This scheme is externally audited and ensures that member practices work to high quality standards.

The Good Practice Scheme Commitment

  1. We aim to provide dental care of consistently good quality for all patients.
  2. We only provide care that meets your needs and wishes.
  3. We aim to make your treatment as comfortable and convenient as possible.
  4. We look after your general health and safety while receiving dental care.
  5. We follow current guidelines on infection control.
  6. We check for mouth cancer and tell you what we find.
  7. We take part in continuing professional development to keep our skills and knowledge up-to-date.
  8. We train all staff in practice-wide work systems and review training plans once a year.
  9. We welcome feedback and deal promptly with complaints.
  10. Every member of the practice is aware of the need to work safely under General Dental Council guidelines.

 

 


Care Quality Commision

Our practice is registered with the Care Quality Commission(CQC). Our registration number is 1-153015918.

The CQC offer a "Share Your Experience Form" at www.cqc.org.uk/your experience.


 Valident Website Compliance

valident logo          This dental website is fully compliant with the UK Statutory Instruments covering Electronic Communications, Commerce and Privacy Laws, the Data Protection Act 1998 as well as the General Dental Council (GDC) Standards for the Dental Team. For further details please go to the Valident website.

Health and Safety

We take every precaution to safeguard patients and staff whilst at the practice. We follow all current guidelines related to health and safety. We comply with regulations among other matters related to COSHH and x-rays. Information about x-rays can be found here.


Data protection privacy notice for patients

The practice follows agreed procedures to keep your information secure and private. For more information, please see our Privacy Notice.


Safeguarding of children and vunerable adults

At Dash Dental Care we take Safeguarding of children and adults very seriously.

A copy of our Safeguarding Policy is available at reception.

The Named Professional at the practice is Mrs Sharon Till. The deputy Named Professional is Mr Damian O’Shea.

Should you have any concerns for the welfare of yourself or someone else the 24 hour local contact number for Manchester City Council Service for Social Care is 0161 234 5001


Cross infection control

Your health and safety is of the utmost importance to us. We have therefore invested in the latest equipment to sterilizes instruments to the standards demanded by best practice guidelines of the Department of Health. Instruments are initially cleaned in a washer disinfector, inspected under magnification and sealed in bags before sterilization. The sealed instruments are sterilized in vacuum autoclaves. The sterile instruments are then only opened when ready to use for each patient. Many items we use are disposable.

This process complies with current best practice so our patients can have peace of mind when undergoing treatment.

If you have any questions or wish to view the process we would be happy to help.

In addition we use the Alpron system to ensure the quality of the water supply from the dental equipment. 


Continuing Postgraduate Education

In a time of ever more rapid changes continuing postgraduate development is more important than ever to keep abreast of changes in dentistry. Both Damian O'Shea and Sharon Till undertake postgraduate education in excess of the requirements of the General Dental Council.


Clinical Governance

Clinical governance refers to a range of activities and systems that ensure the practice delivers a consistently high quality of treatment and service to patients. At Dash Dental Care we have embraced clinical governance as an ongoing process.


Policy for handling patient complaints

In this practice we take complaints very seriously indeed and try to ensure that all our patients are pleased with their experience of our service.  When patients complain, they are dealt with courteously and promptly so that the matter is resolved as quickly as possible.  This procedure is based on these objectives.                          

Our aim is to react to complaints in the way in which we would want our complaint about a service to be handled.  We learn from every mistake that we make and we respond to customers’ concerns in a caring and sensitive way.

The persons responsible for dealing with any complaint about the service which we provide are Mr Damian O’Shea and Mrs Sharon Till.

  1. If a patient complains on the telephone or at the reception desk, we will listen to their complaint and offer to refer him or her to Mr Damian O’Shea or Mrs Sharon Till  immediately. If Mr Damian O’Shea or Mrs Sharon Till are not available at the time, then the patient will be told when they will be able to talk to the dentist and arrangements will be made for this to happen.  The member of staff will take brief details of the complaint and pass them on.  If we cannot arrange this within a reasonable period or if the patient does not wish to wait to discuss the matter, arrangements will be made for someone else to deal with it.
  2. If the patient complains in writing the letter will be passed on immediately to Mr Damian O’Shea or Mrs Sharon Till.
  3. If a complaint is about any aspect of clinical care or associated charges it will normally be referred to the dentist, unless the patient does not want this to happen.
  4. We will acknowledge the patient’s complaint in writing and enclose a copy of this code of practice as soon as possible, normally within three working days.  We will seek to investigate the complaint within ten working days of receipt to give an explanation of the circumstances which led to the complaint.  If the patient does not wish to meet us, then we will attempt to talk to them on the telephone.  If we are unable to investigate the complaint within ten working days we will notify the patient, giving reasons for the delay and a likely period within which the investigation will be completed.

We will confirm the decision about the complaint in writing immediately after completing our investigation.

Proper and comprehensive records are kept of any complaint received.

If patients are not satisfied with the result of our procedure then a complaint may be made to: 

  • The Dental Complaints Service (08456 120 540) for complaints about private treatment
  • The General Dental Council, 37 Wimpole Street, London, W1M 8DQ (the dentists’ registration body)

Our Treatment Policy 

Our practice treats Private patients.


Patient Confidentiality

Our practice adheres to the standards for patient confidentiality as set out by the governing body for Dentistry the General Dental Council. You can see details of this by downloading their guide Standards for the Dental Team.


Data Protection

Our practice fully complies with the Data Protection Act 1998. It is registered with the Information Commissioner's Office. Our registration number is Z5910494. Our practice data controller is Dash Dental Care (Mr Damian O'Shea and Mrs Sharon Till). To download the ICO guide to data protection please click here.


 

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