Dental-practice services

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NHS Arden and Greater East Midlands Commissioning Support Unit (AGCSU) on behalf of NHS England – (North) (referred to as the Commissioner) would like to inform you of an opportunity to provide services for community dental services across Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire (excluding Bassetlaw), unscheduled care dental services across Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire (excluding Bassetlaw) and domiciliary dental services across Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire (excluding Bassetlaw). All services are expected to start on 1.4.2020. NHS England — North would like to invite potential Bidders to a Market Engagement Webinar taking place on Thursday 7.2.2019 between 9:30 a.m.– 11:00 a.m. Please register your interest in attending this webinar by 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday 5.2.2019. Places are strictly limited therefore reservations are limited to no more than 2 persons per organisation. The community dental service is expected to provide patient centred clinical services in a primary care setting for patients who are unable to access and obtain routine dental care in a general dental practice setting because of some impairment, disability and/or complex medical condition. The aim of the service will be to improve oral health and reduce the oral health inequalities of people in Derbyshire who have a physical, sensory, intellectual, mental, medical, psychological and/or emotional or social impairment or disability or more often a combination of these through: — providing high quality consultant-led paediatric and special care dentistry to children and adults. This will include children with more complex dental needs, — providing high quality dental care to people from vulnerable groups whose needs may not be accommodated in NHS general dental services. In addition the service will: — deliver the fieldwork for Public Health England’s Dental Public Health Epidemiology Programme where commissioned for local authorities. The community dental service is expected to provide patient centred clinical services in a primary care setting for patients who are unable to access and obtain routine dental care in a general dental practice setting because of some impairment, disability and/or complex medical condition. The aim of the service will be to improve oral health and reduce the oral health inequalities of people in Nottinghamshire (excluding Bassetlaw for all services except epidemiology) who have a physical, sensory, intellectual, mental, medical, psychological and/or emotional or social impairment or disability or more often a combination of these through: — providing high quality consultant-led paediatric and special care dentistry to children and adults. This will include children with more complex dental needs, — providing high quality dental care to people from vulnerable groups whose needs may not be accommodated in NHS general dental services. In addition the service will: — deliver the fieldwork for Public Health England’s Dental Public Health Epidemiology Programme where commissioned for local authorities (including Bassetlaw). Domiciliary dental services are concerned with providing and enabling the improvement of oral health of individuals and groups in society who have a physical, sensory, intellectual, mental, or medical factor that limits their ability to access oral health care services appropriate to their needs. The service will provide a domiciliary dental service to residents of Derbyshire. This includes to care homes and patients confined to their own homes, including a full clinical examination, an oral health risk assessment and appropriate treatment, including preventive care, to patients with long term and/or progressive medical conditions; mental illness or dementia, causing disorientation and confusion in unfamiliar environments; or increasing frailty who are unable to travel to a dental surgery and who could not otherwise access dental care. Domiciliary dental services are concerned with providing and enabling the improvement of oral health of individuals and groups in society who have a physical, sensory, intellectual, mental, or medical factor that limits their ability to access oral health care services appropriate to their needs. The service will provide a domiciliary dental service to residents of Nottinghamshire (excluding Bassetlaw). This includes to care homes and patients confined to their own homes, including a full clinical examination, an oral health risk assessment and appropriate treatment, including preventive care, to patients with long term and/or progressive medical conditions; mental illness or dementia, causing disorientation and confusion in unfamiliar environments; or increasing frailty who are unable to travel to a dental surgery and who could not otherwise access dental care. The Urgent and Emergency Care Review and Five Year Forward View; Next Steps emphasise the need to change the way unscheduled care is offered, in order that everyone can receive the most appropriate care, in the most appropriate place, first time around. This includes equitable access to access to high quality unscheduled dental services that are integrated with the wider urgent care system. The aims of the Unscheduled Dental Service (UDS) will be: — to deliver unscheduled dental care services providing assessment and treatment for patients with a variety of non-life-threatening dental conditions to the population of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire (excluding Bassetlaw) — to reduce inappropriate attendances at A&E. — to ensure services are provided in a safe, caring, appropriate and accessible environment. The Unscheduled dental service will complement the services provided by other primary dental care services and work in parallel with rather than duplicating existing services. The UDS will be flexible and responsive, adapting to the individual needs of patients. The Lotting strategy for this service is yet to be decided by the commissioner.