A new toolkit ‘Service Evaluation into the use of Alternative Augmentative Communication‘ aims to improve communications between the dental team and children with learning disabilities.
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Although dental practice closures have become a regular event, one group of patients in Northampton will be feeling especially hard done by.
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In stark contrast to the last Government’s dental recovery plan, recently the subject of withering criticism by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) there is a recent mobile dental van success story.
"Look after your teeth as you can‘t grow new ones" is advice many adults recall receiving in their youth, either from parents, or a caring dental surgeon.
With each new headline the recovery of NHS dentistry, certainly as it has been known since 1948, looks increasingly unlikely. A new story from Cornwall ties some of the causal comorbidities together.
When it comes to NHS dentistry what happens in Wales tends not to stay in Wales. A variety of contractual changes and key decision makers show links to the English service. Furthermore, since last summer both nations have had Labour administrations. Ministers Wes Streeting and Stephen Kinnock, must be watching the latest developments in Wales with some interest.