These include out of hours dental nurse assessment, advice on pain management and the prioritisation of dental calls with referral to urgent dental health services where appropriate. NHS Direct Director of Service Develop- ment Paul Jenkins said, 'We recognise that PCTs face a challenging agenda ...
The Local Dental Committee agreed that dentists were not being forced to work outside their competencies. The referral criteria and rejection process should remain the same. NHS England must continue to identify and support training needs amongst referring dentists....
Sara Hurley, the NHS England chief dental officer, has published guidance for dentists on how their teams - who are "likely to meet patients with broken teeth and injuries to their mouths" - can also identify and help victims. Ms Hurley said: "Combating domestic abuse...
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Also brought in was a flat rate of £1 for ordinary dental treatment, as well as charges for glasses. Image:A woman hands over a prescription in a chemist's shop in Fleet Street, London April 1953 - DNA breakthrough Two Cambridge University scientists - Francis Crick and Jim Watson - ...
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Referral patterns and the referral system for oral surgery care. Part 1: General dental practitioner referral patterns P Coulthard I Kazakou H V Worthington British Dental Journal(2000) Out-of-hours dental services: a survey of current provision in the United Kingdom ...
These include out of hours dental nurse assessment, advice on pain management and the prioritisation of dental calls with referral to urgent dental health services where appropriate. NHS Direct Director of Service Develop- ment Paul Jenkins said, 'We recognise that PCTs face a challenging agenda ...
we obtained the information from the outpatients who visited the Tohoku University Dental Hospital using a questionnaire for our education and clinical training system.The following results were obtained.(1) "Referral from general practitioner" was the most common reason for visiting our hos...