In a letter of the 20th May the Chief Dental Officer outlined a phased remobilisation of NHS dental services. To support practitioners working in primary dental care the Scottish Dental Clinical Effectiveness Programme (SDCEP) has developed a Practice Recovery toolkit which includes a guide and associated implementation tools. The guide provides advice on: Practice organisation…
In a letter published today Tom Ferris, Scotland’s Chief Dental Officer outlined the process to ‘Remobilisation of NHS Dental Services in Scoltand’. In the letter he outlines 3 key phases of remobilisation which are summaries below. No precise time line is provided but it is anticipated that by the 31st July all practices wil have…
New advice for dental patients in Scotland has just been issued (20th May 2020).
An update to the recently published rapid review of recommendations for the re-opening of dental services is now available. The update includes 5 more counties bringing the total to 17 sets of recommendations from 16 different countries. There are some changes to the key messages:- This review reports on national recommendations for the re-structuring and…
Guidance to support decision-making for re-opening dental services closed or reduced across the world as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
SDCEP is developing a guide to support dental practices prepare to re-open and start seeing patients. To help ensure that the guide addresses the topics of importance to dental teams we would be grateful if you could complete a short survey. The survey can be accessed here and should take no more than 15 minutes of your…
SDCEP has updated the Drugs for Management of Dental Problems During COVID-19 Pandemic supplement, which was first published on 8 April 2020. The drugs supplement is based on SDCEP’s Drug Prescribing for Dentistry guidance and lists the drug regimens that dentists are most likely to advise or prescribe for their patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. The updated version: – provides more…
A rapid review of recommendations for re-opening dental services following the closure or reduction of dental services across the world as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic has now been published. The reivew is not a guidance document but summarises recommendations from the various sources identified within five themes relevant to the re-opening of dental…