May Newsletter
Practice Update.
Welcome to the May edition of our newsletter. At the time of writing, it is bank holiday weekend. There are such a plethora of bank holidays at this time of year and the extra time to be able to spend with friends and family seems such a treat. We hope our patients and team are able to enjoy some rest and recuperation. The sun shining all week has also been a huge bonus. Rest assured our surgeries and reception area are all air conditioned so you will not overheat at the practice should you have an appointment coming up! We invested in air con a few years ago and we are always so grateful of it as temperatures start to rise at this time of year.
Below you will find an update of all that has happened at the practice in the last month along with upcoming events. We consider our team to be our biggest asset and truly believe our people are what set us apart from other practices, so I hope that you find our regular updates of interest to you.
On March 25th we had our Care Quality Commission Inspection. The CQC is the regulator for health and social care services in England and one of the regulators in dental practice that we need to work with to ensure that we deliver safe and effective care.
The CQC use key lines of enquiry to investigate if they deem a service to be safe, effective, caring, responsive and well led. At the time of our last newsletter the report had not been published but we are pleased to now be able to share this with you. It goes without saying that we passed in all areas.
We would like to offer congratulations and extend our thanks to our whole team but particularly to our practice manager, Hayley James. Hayley has been working at WDC for many years but has only recently been appointed as our registered manager. To have navigated through her first CQC inspection so diligently and so well, is a huge achievement and tantamount to the high standards she sets as our manager. Well done.
Click here to read our 2025 CQC Report.
Toothbrush and Toothpaste Recycling is back at WDC.
A while back we offered a very popular service for recycling toothbrushes & toothpaste tubes at the practice. This was funded by Colgate and run by Terracycle. Unfortunately, Colgate stopped funding this and so we were unable to continue to offer this service. We were astonished however, to find that recycling these products elsewhere was notoriously difficult and found it virtually impossible to find anywhere we could recommend for oral care product.
Boots do offer a limited service but there are caveats placed on how to recycle in exchange for advantage points. Otherwise, we have been unable to find anywhere else that can take these products! We have therefore invested in our own oral care products recycling service right here at the practice. The cost of this will be funded by the business. It is personally important to us to ensure that facilitate responsible recycling in our industry.
Please use the box provided in the waiting area. It is for toothpaste tubes and caps, electric toothbrush heads (those not containing RFID microchips), plastic toothbrushes, floss containers. Interdental brushes are also now accepted and even dental aligners.
Join Us and Get Active with GoVida!
In September this year our team will set out to climb Scotland’s highest peak Ben Nevis to raise money for Footprints Conductive Education Centre, Reverse Rett & B.R.I.L.L. at Nottingham University Hospital. All of these charities have a connection to pat ients at the practice.
In the run up to this, we need to get going with our training and so we have partnered with GoVida Well Being app to embark on a challenge! Between May 9th and September 19th we are going to try to walk the equivalent distance of walking from Bramcote Lane to Ben Nevis! This is 337 miles in just over four months. This time we’re throwing in a bit of a curve ball – our patients, friends and family can join us on this virtual challenge as well!
Our team have used the GoVida app for over a year now to help encourage healthy habits and get active. We would love it if our patients got involved in this challenge with us and it would really help motivate us to train for the real deal! It’s free of charge, there are no catches and no pressure. Simply sign up using the link below, download the GoVida app and link it to your phone or fitness tracker and away you go. If you are feeling charitable and would like to help us hit our fundraising target by donating to our JustGiving page as well, this would be very much appreciated by us and the charities, but even just joining in is worthwhile. It will help raise awareness of these charities and our fundraising and you will almost certainly increase your daily activity and well-being in the process.
On average, our team’s daily activity increases by a third every time we take part in one of these challenges so it really is worthwhile. Please click the link below or scan the QR code and join in!
Click to join our virtual walk to Ben Nevis.
Don’t feel up to joining in with a walking challenge or just don’t fancy it, but would still like to support us? You can donate to our fundraising for these three amazing charities below. Our current total sits at £693 but we’d love to have raised at least £1000 for each of these charities by the time we set out to conquer the beast that is Ben Nevis in September!
Click to donate to our fund raising!
The Magic of Composite Bonding!
Composite bonding is a minimally invasive cosmetic procedure where a tooth coloured resin is applied to the teeth to improve their appearance. It’s great for fixing chips, closing small gaps or helping with discolouration and the resin is carefully shaped to blend in naturally with your smile and preserve your natural tooth structure. The technique for placing this sort of restoration is extremely technique sensitive and done well it can be a brilliant treatment to improve your smile easily and safely. This month one of our practice owners, Anna Lawson, travelled to Manchester to take part in an additional two full days training on this technique. She was taught by the team from The Fresh Dental Institute, receiving additional hands-on training from one of the experts in this field, Monik Vasant.
Team Celebrations.
Our team celebrated our recent CQC success with an afternoon out in town. We went to Roxy Ballroom, (highly recommend it!), for curling and darts! We followed this with a fabulous meal at Bistro Pierre and a game of Yankee Gift Swap!
Kaylee (right) and Kirsty (left) on our recent team outing to Nottingham!
We also congratulated Kaylee Ferguson (pictured here on the right with Kirsty Ellis, on our recent team afternoon in Nottingham), on being promoted to our Decontamination Lead. Kaylee has worked at the practice in her role as a dental nurse for over seven years and is a massive asset to us. She really is the epitome of a team player! During COVID Kaylee stepped up and worked alongside our dentists at the Urgent Care Centre which was a difficult thing to do. Kaylee also played a large role during our recent inspection, being inspected and questioned on our decontamination processes and HTM01-05 (a huge document from the UK Department of Health about decontamination in primary dental practice). Kaylee now leads our team on all the cross infection and decontamination processes. A hugely important role in running the practice safely. Congratulations Kaylee.
Local Events.
On June 8th this year The Nottingham Motor Show returns to Wollaton Park! This is a free event apart from parking charges. There are food and exhibitors, music and entertainment. A great family day out
click to link to more information on the Nottingham Motor Show 2025
