Preparing for April

It is perhaps unfortunate that because the public sector financial year runs from April 1, to March 31, all new initiatives seem to start on All Fools Day. Yet April 1 is the date when dental practices in England need to show the levels of compliance they have claimed in their registration documents with the CQC, and that date is, in reality, only a few short weeks away. Many of you will already have had contact with the CQC after getting in your registration documents, but what can you be doing now?

Much has changed, a little has been clarified, and sadly in some cases more has become more opaque since I began writing about CQC issues last summer. But there are some core elements which remain the same and it is helpful to focus on these when preparing for the April 1 deadline. In the debate about some of the minutiae of the requirements and the mountains of paperwork, we need to remember some key points.