15 135 Oral Health Education and Promotion Service Including Dental Epidemiology

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Cheshire East Council takes the health and wellbeing of its residents seriously. This is reflected in its 3 year plan Putting Residents First in which one of the ambitions is that “People live well and for longer” which means local people have healthy lifestyles and access to good cultural, leisure and recreational facilities, care services focus on prevention, early intervention and physical and mental wellbeing. Local authorities have a statutory responsibility to commission oral health promotion programmes to improve the health of the local population to an extent that they consider appropriate in their areas. They are also required to provide or commission oral health surveys as part of Public Health England’s (PHE) Dental Public Health Intelligence Programme (DPHIP - formerly known as the national dental epidemiology programme) via Statutory Instrument 2012 No. 3094. PHE is responsible for organising, co-ordinating, facilitating and providing overall quality assurance of the production of standardised, comparable information relating to the oral health of whole population and population sub-groups, based on the fieldwork data collection at local authority level. PHE is responsible for analysing the data and producing published reports and information on each survey collected. Keywords: Oral Health, Promotion, Education, Dental, Tooth Decay