SDCEP has developed several resources for use during the COVID-19 pandemic, including:
The Scottish Dental Clinical Effectiveness Programme (SDCEP) provides user-friendly, evidence-based guidance to support dental teams to provide high quality healthcare that is safe, effective and person centred.
SDCEP works in partnership with the Translation Research in a Dental Setting (TRiaDS) collaboration, the Scottish Dental Practice Based Research Network (SDPBRN), the Quality Improvement in Practice Team (QIiPT), and the Scottish Dental Postgraduate Fellowship (SDPF). These comprise the Clinical Effectiveness workstream of NHS Education for Scotland’s Dental Directorate. SDCEP also collaborates with the Cochrane Oral Health Group.
SDCEP also provides its guidance via the Dental Companion app.
The following list of Health Board contacts will allow practitioner to make direct contact with their local boards regarding Quality Control / Quality issues with the PPE . This will allow the issue to be escalated to National Procurement. This contact should ensure escalation but reduces the notion of multiple dental practices having to make contact… Read the full article
The Scottish Government is looking to recruit two Deputy Chief Dental Officers. The posts available, through either a secondment opportunity or a Service Level Agreement (SLA) between the Scottish Government / current employer: one specifically for a General Dental Services (GDS) practitioner, with a minimum commitment of 4 days per week; the other, for a… Read the full article
SDCEP guidance is designed to support the dental team to provide high quality patient care.
Guidance on the following topics is currently in development or in the process of updating.
SDCEP uses a methodology for guidance development that aims to be transparent and systematic and to adhere as far as possible to international standards set out by the AGREE Collaboration.