COVID-19: Update: NHS publishes guidance for urgent dental care systems
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- Published: Thursday, 16 April 2020 16:27
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The NHS has published COVID-19 guidance and standard operating procedures for urgent dental care systems in the context of coronavirus. It covers how arrangemnts for urgent care will operate in the current circumstances. The guidance is applicable to the delay phase of COVID-19 pandemic management.
The guidance[i] covers a local systems approach to the organisation and operation of urgent dental care (UDC) provision. It includes:
- system-level guidance: of particular relevance to local commissioning teams, local dental networks, local dental committees, managed clinical networks, and local PHE dental public health colleagues
- standard operating procedures for UDC services – of particular relevance to dental providers and dental teams.
The document should be considered alongside other guidance which may be applicable in a particular care context. This document sets out principles for system development and service delivery which will need local interpretation according to local structures, geography and capacity.
They trust healthcare professionals to use their clinical judgement when applying guidance around patient management in what we appreciate is a highly challenging, rapidly changing environment.
Guidance, particularly in relation to risk assessment and service provision, is likely to be updated as the pandemic situation develops, depending on management phase and the evidence-based national approach.
[i] https://www.england.nhs.uk/coronavirus/wp-content/uploads/sites/52/2020/04/C0282-covid-19-urgent-dental-care-sop.pdf
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