The future for your practice

The BDA Good Practice Scheme offers practices a way of telling their patients that they are committed to working to a standard of good practice set by the profession's national association. In a world where patients are increasingly more discerning, a trusted quality mark is a powerful message. Joining the BDA Good Practice Scheme is a great way to show patients that your practice is working to high quality standards.

At the heart of the scheme is the Good Practice Scheme commitment. To meet this commitment and join the scheme, your practice must satisfy a number of relevant standards, all of which are based upon a consensus of what is regarded as good practice by the profession.

Good Practice is not another inspection scheme. Inspections alone do not guarantee the ongoing delivery of quality dental care; only the commitment of everyone working in the practice can do that. The user-friendly programme will help your staff to make the commitment and contribute towards providing a service that patients can trust.

The Good Practice Scheme is:

• A practice recognition scheme.

• Based on recognised standards of good practice.

• A practice management tool for clinical governance.

• An aid to quality assurance in practice.

• A tool to build a strong and motivated team.

• An excellent way to market your practice.

• Open to all practices (NHS and private, specialist and general).

How Good Practice works

The practice self-assessment programme (in a CD format) describes all the requirements your team need to meet and contains a number of useful resources to help you put in place protocols and procedures and develop quality assurance systems within the practice.

Once you and your team have completed the self-assessment programme, you can apply for membership of the Good Practice Scheme.

To order the self-assessment programme, please contact the Good practice administrator on 0207 563 4598.