However, with the introduction of the internal market in healthcare, following the 1990 NHS and Com- munity Care Act, there have been some limitations to this freedom. Irrespective of these, there are practical limitations to referral.1 The most obvious practical limitation is the distance that...
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and highlights the range of oral medicine conditions general dental practitioners may be faced with in practice.#Outlines National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidance regarding the urgent referral pathway for suspected head and neck cancer.#Highlights factors limiting the practice of oral ...
Local NHS permissions (R&D approval) for individual sites and participating GDPs have been obtained from the Clinical Research Network Greater Manchester, The Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust, Clinical Research Network - North West Coast, Tayside Medical Science Centre, R...
improved the interface between the primary and secondary sectors l The GDP did not see outreach as a replacement for the conventional referral system l There is scope to incorporate outreach into CPD and play a role in clinical effectiveness PRACTICE Why undertake outreach into general dental ...
4. Patients who develop a TMD during braces treatment should have the matter frankly discussed with regard to the causes of TMDs; possible conservative management options; possible resolution (including spontaneously) or recurrence and possible need for referral if simple measures such as jaw rest and...
Consider longhand documentation in referral letters. If there is doubt over which tooth is causing pain, then manage the pain rather than embarking on an irreversible dental extraction. Communicate alternative options and risks of treatment and document these clearly in the clinical records. Ask the...
in England in 2012/2013 and 136,263 in 2013/2014, this The aim of this research was to examine patterns of conscious represented care for 120,035 and 120,468 patients, respectively, sedation within primary dental care in relation to patient based on FP17 claim forms returned to the NHS ...
42 Thus, the onus sits with the dental profession to ensure that all agencies are aware of the dental facilities available, receive guidance on who can be seen in primary care and who should be referred to secondary care, and are familiar with the referral mechanisms to support patients for ...
specialists (normally dermatologists)'.38Precancerous lesions such as actinic keratosis may be, and usually are, managed in primary care by a GP or GP with a special interest, unless there are particular individual circumstances, such as a difficult lesion location, to warrant hospital referral....