SDCEP has developed several resources for use during the COVID-19 pandemic:
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.
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SDCEP also provides its guidance via the Dental Companion app.
In a letter of the 20th May the Chief Dental Officer outlined a phased remobilisation of NHS dental services. To support practitioners working in primary dental care the Scottish Dental Clinical Effectiveness Programme (SDCEP) has developed a Practice Recovery toolkit which includes a guide and associated implementation tools. The guide provides advice on: Practice organisation… Read the full article
In a letter published today Tom Ferris, Scotland’s Chief Dental Officer outlined the process to ‘Remobilisation of NHS Dental Services in Scoltand’. In the letter he outlines 3 key phases of remobilisation which are summaries below. No precise time line is provided but it is anticipated that by the 31st July all practices wil have… 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.