The National Standards of Healthcare Cleanliness 2021 requires healthcare premises to carry out cleaning tasks and a wide number of other issues; however, the Chief Dental Officer has confirmed that many of the points set out in the document are not required to be undertaken in general practice. In addition, the CQC has confirmed that it WILL NOT expect practices "to display star ratings or logos in dental practices" and has updated its Dental Mythbuster 38: Infection prevention and control that details what it will inspect on.
To meet these requirements (and those of the National Standards of Healthcare Cleanliness which are applicable to high-street dentistry), we have produced cleaning schedules, including separate documents for each procedure that must be carried out at different times. These can be modified to suit what happens in individual members' practices and please note that the first three are purely reminders for the responsible person and are not required to be completed.