Stradbrook Dental Centre & Stradbrook Implants · Portman Healthcare Limited
Nine years registered, never inspected — and the first look will land under new rules
Both of the practice’s CQC registrations have run since 7 August 2017 without an inspection at this registration. CQC has named never-assessed services the second of its three re-assessment priorities, and the framework a first assessment would use is being rewritten now. This is the position you can verify on the register today — and what it means before an inspector ever visits.
The 30-second read
Position
Two registrations — Stradbrook Dental Centre and Stradbrook Implants — both registered 7 August 2017, neither inspected at this registration since. Verified against the live CQC register on 23 August 2026.
What's changing
Dentistry moves onto CQC’s draft Primary Care & Community Services Framework — pilot assessments run June–October 2026 and the new frameworks take effect end of 2026. Never-assessed services are the second of CQC’s three named re-assessment priorities.
The pattern
42% of England’s 12,189 dental locations have never been assessed at their current registration — but only 333 have waited nine years or more. Both of yours are among them. Where dental assessments did happen, about 1 in 8 found not all regulations met.
The 30 minutes
What no register can show is which of the new framework’s evidence expectations your day-to-day systems could already answer. You leave the call with the practice’s top-three readiness gaps and a first action on each.
Of England’s 12,189 dental locations, 5,096 have never been assessed at their current registration. Stradbrook is far from alone in that — the length of the wait, not the fact of it, is what sets the practice apart.
The nine-year tail
333 of 12,189
Dental locations registered nine years or more and still never assessed — under 3% of the register. Both Stradbrook registrations sit in this tail.
When assessments happen
1 in 8
Of the 1,855 dental locations with an assessment recorded under CQC’s current approach, 230 had an outcome of “not all regulations met”.
Your published position
LIVE CQC REGISTER · 23 AUG 2026
The register holds two entries for the practice, both provided and run by Portman Healthcare Limited, both with Mrs Tania Jane Lunn as registered manager. The register also records a provider change at this address — any earlier inspection history belongs to the old profile, not to these registrations. At this registration, the public record is still blank.
Both registrations created under Portman Healthcare Limited.
12 JUN 2026
Consultation on CQC’s draft sector-specific frameworks closed.
JUN–OCT 2026
Pilot assessments run with providers; CQC’s stated target is 9,000+ reports by September.
23 AUG 2026 · NOW
9.0 years registered; no inspection at this registration. Never-assessed services are the second of CQC’s three named re-assessment priorities.
END 2026
New frameworks take effect — a first assessment from then on would be judged under the new rules.
What’s changing under that blank record
DRAFT PRIMARY CARE & COMMUNITY SERVICES FRAMEWORK
The six shifts from the guide you downloaded are the rules this position is read against. For a practice that has never been assessed at its current registration, they cut one way: a first assessment would be judged against written descriptors, weighted toward what your systems can evidence continuously, on an ordinary day — not toward a file assembled in the weeks before a visit.
Outcomes over processContinuous, intelligence-led monitoringHealth inequalities in scopeWorkforce within well-ledDescriptor-led, not score-ledSector-specific KLOEs
The pattern in the dental register
CQC PUBLIC REGISTER · n = 12,189 DENTAL LOCATIONS
CQC does not currently rate dental services, so there is no score benchmark or league table we could honestly draw for Stradbrook — and we will not invent one. What the register does hold for dentistry is assessment outcomes (regulations met, or not all met) and the published report narratives. The reading below uses those, and nothing else.
The queue
Never-assessed is a named priority, and the wait is the exposure
5,096 / 12,189dental locations never assessed at current registration
333of those have waited 9+ years — Stradbrook’s tail
CQC’s three named re-assessment priorities are urgent-risk services, never-assessed services, and aged ratings. A nine-year blank record sits squarely in the second.
The findings
Where assessments found gaps, governance is the recurring line
230 / 1,855assessed dental locations with “not all regulations met”
129 / 255not-met reports name Regulation 17 (good governance)
The published not-met reports keep returning to systems: risk management, infection-control assurance, recruitment checks and leadership.
Between visits
CQC reads your signals before it ever visits
CQC already reads statutory notifications, complaints and workforce returns between visits — and the draft framework’s continuous-monitoring shift gives them more weight, not less.
Silence is a signal too — CQC treats it as risk, not as a clean record. For a practice with no inspection at this registration, there is no published report to balance those signals.
Everything above comes from the public register, and we can see it from outside: two registrations, nine years, no inspection at this registration, a sector where the assessments that do happen keep finding governance gaps.
What we cannot see from outside is the practice itself — which of the new framework’s evidence expectations your day-to-day systems could already answer, where nine years of running history lives, and whether it reads as evidence or as memory. That gap is real, it is not a withholding trick, and it is exactly what the 30 minutes is for.
What we’d work through together
THE CALL AGENDA · NOT HOMEWORK
Six items, each one turning on something only your side of the table can see. We bring the register read and the framework; you bring the practice. All six are covered live on the call.
The evidence a first assessment asks for on day one01
Where nine years of running history lives02
The governance file behind Regulation 1703
Two registrations, one operation04
The signals CQC reads between visits05
Your two weakest evidence areas, named06
Show what each item turns on
01 · The evidence a first assessment asks for on day one
Turns on which of your day-to-day systems could produce it now, without a preparation sprint — only you can see what those systems hold.
02 · Where nine years of running history lives
Turns on where audits, checks and incident learning are actually recorded — and whether they read as evidence or as institutional memory.
03 · The governance file behind Regulation 17
Turns on how oversight is documented in your practice — the regulation named in about half of the dental reports that found regulations not met.
04 · Two registrations, one operation
Turns on how consistency across the Dental Centre and Implants is evidenced — the framework’s expectation is the same standard at every registration.
05 · The signals CQC reads between visits
Turns on what your notifications, complaints record and workforce returns already say about the practice — the picture CQC holds today.
06 · Your two weakest evidence areas, named
Turns on an honest reading of the five, decided together on the call — the two that become the next six months’ priorities.
A first CQC narrative is written once
Pilot assessments under the new frameworks are running now, and never-assessed services are a named priority. Whenever the first visit comes, its published report becomes the practice’s public record. In 30 minutes we narrow the six items above to the three that matter first for Stradbrook — and the first action on each.
