Emergency Dental Care
(published November 2007)
The guidance consists of documents available in pdf form the complete guidance and a Practice Guide that includes information extracted from the complete guidance for use in daily dental practice. This guide come in two formats:-
- a 2 page version or
- a 6 page version
To date, there has been great variation in the availability and consistency of advice and care for patients with a dental emergency, and there have been no nationally agreed standards for emergency dental care. The SDCEP guidance aims to encourage more equitable provision of care for patients with a dental emergency and improve patient safety by promoting a systematic approach that can be applied to suit local circumstances. The guidance focuses on the patient journey to providers of care and includes specific self-help advice to support dental staff in advising patients and a simple method for prioritising dental emergencies in primary care practice. It also provides quality standards that specify the requirements of out-of-hours emergency dental services for use by NHS Boards and dentists.
The guidance is directed towards all those who have a role in delivering dental care and those responsible for organising emergency dental service provision at a local or regional level. The guidance is intended to complement the national work on emergency dental service development involving NHS Boards and NHS 24.
Guidance Development Group
| Name | Details |
|---|---|
|
Mr Graham Ball (Chair) |
Consultant in Dental Public Health, NHS Fife. |
|
Mrs Dawn Adams |
Clinical Director of Community Dental Services, Fife. |
|
Dr Robert Broadfoot |
Dental Director Primary Care Division, NHS Greater Glasgow. |
|
Mr Martin Donachie |
Consultant in Restorative Dentistry, Maxillofacial Unit, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Grampian Universities Hospital Trust, Aberdeen. |
|
Mrs Helen Donaghy |
General Dental Practice Manager, Glasgow |
|
Mr Douglas Duncan |
Lead Clinician, Chalmers Dental Centre, NHS Lothian. |
|
Dr Gail Topping |
Director of the Dental Caries Control Programme, Dental Health Services Research Unit, University of Dundee; Honorary Consultant in Dental Public Health, Dundee. |
|
Mr Andy Yuill |
General Dental Practitioner and Dental Practice Advisor, NHS Fife and NHS Tayside. |
Page last edited: 27 March 2012
