This report was undertaken to assess the current service provision and to clarify the workforce required to sustain the service. It was undertaken against the background of improving child oral health attributed to preventive initiatives such as Childsmile. It also takes into account concerns that the age profile of paediatric- experienced dentists in Scotland indicates a significant number will be lost from the service and from the General Dental Council (GDC) specialist list over the next 5-10 years.
The report highlights a number of issues relating to the current service delivery model in general dental services (GDS), hospital dental services (HDS), the Public Dental Service (PDS) and Childsmile. It also confirms that inequalities still exist in relation to social and geographical factors such as deprivation, accessibility to services and spread of population in rural Scotland, and as such, these factors should be taken into consideration when planning services.
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The Domiciliary Dental Care Needs Assessment was undertaken to assess the current and predicted need for domiciliary care and to aid the planning of dental services for an ageing population. This was conducted against the background of a perceived decline in the provision of domiciliary dental care by General Dental Practitioners at a time of demographic change in the population.
The aims were:-
- To describe the historical and current provision of domiciliary dental care in Scotland.
- To identify probable gaps in service and to highlight difficulties experienced by individual patients, care homes and dental service providers.
- To make recommendations for the future on the basis of best practice.
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The Scottish Needs Assessment Programme (SNAP) was started in 1991 as a self-help group of public health medicine consultants to undertake the production of needs assessment, develop methodology and share their findings across Scotland.
The SNAP programme did not include oral health until 1993 when
Ailsa Morrant established a SNAP Oral Health Group.
In 2008 the group was restructured with a formal link to the National Dental Advisory Group and renamed the Scottish Dental Needs Assessment Programme (SDNAP).
The report looks at the available information on endodontic need in Scotland, criteria for success and failure and endodontic strategies. It also addresses the issue of endodontic treatment costs. It is hoped that it will inform those who are interested in the subject of endodontics and help to guide in the development of endodontic services in Scotland.
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The aim of this Scottish Dental Needs Assessment Programme (SDNAP) report was to conduct a needs assessment of specialist restorative dentistry service provision in NHS boards across Scotland and to make future recommendations. Key findings and Recommendations are presented.
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This needs assessment on oral cancer was conducted in 1996 . There have been considerable changes since then so teh report is included for interest.
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This needs assessment report on dental caries in children was conducted in 1998 . There have been considerable improvements since that period and the report is included for interest.
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The aim of this report was to review current oral health promotion activities in Scotland to identify: content, methods and material, evaluation techniques and areas of good practice, with a view to making recommendations on the development of oral health promotion activities aimed at reducing inequalities in oral and dental health.
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The aim of this report was to review the need for the range of Oral and Maxillofacial Services and adress the implications of the emergence of the specialty of Surgical Dentistry.
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This document commonly known as the ‘Dental Action Plan’ was the then Scottish Executive’s response to two consultation documents:-
- “Towards Better Oral Health in Children”
- “Modernising NHS Dental Services in Scotland”
The document sets out an action plan to improve oral health in Scotland, with a particular focus on improving the oral health of our children, and presents our proposals for modernising NHS dental services in Scotland over the next 3 years but with implications for oral health and dental services to the end of the decade.
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