I'd like to make a suggestion about saving money and a Quango you can abolish; The Care Quality Commission (CQC).I looked through the 274 page document last night. You'd like to make sure that our patients are well looked after, well informed and have a say in their care; that our staff ar suitably qualified; that we act professionally, monitor our standards and have a complaints service. Doesn't the General Dental Council already do this?
You'd like to make sure our premises are safe, clean and our eqipments is up to date. Its all part of running a business and a dental practice and we already adhere to the HSE and myriad other regulations.
Why does it take 274 pages to tell us this? Why do we need another body to be accountable to? Is simply filling in a form really going to make a difference to patient care? How will a bit of paperwork help those practices who don't or can't comply?
You still can't tell us how much it will cost us to be regulated by the CQC, a body which also oversees hospitals and social care. (Perhaps I should refer them to their own Outcome 3, about informing patients of fees in advance!)
Please can you stop heaping more and more regulation on us dentists (and presumably many other professions) and leave us to concentrate on what we do best, treating patients?
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