The NHS App launched in 2019 as the ‘digital front door’ to the National Health Service in England with core features including General Practitioner (GP) appointment booking, repeat prescriptions, patient access to records and, later on, COVID-19 vacci
This article explores how dental therapists and hygienists can help alleviate the NHS's dental backlog by focusing on their scope of practice, their roles in stabilising high-risk patients, and how a collaborative approach can enhance the functioning of dental care communities. It will also discus...
Finally, diet was categorised for each patient into 1 – poor, 2 - average or 3 - good using guideline diets outlined in the Primary Prevention Toolkit (Appendix 1c) and habitual physical activity was categorised into one of 4 groups, 1 - inactive, 2 - moderately inactive, 3 - ...