Dental practice and related services

Tender description

The London Borough of Redbridge is seeking soft market testing information for the provision of an oral health promotion service. We are seeking to gain some market insight from providers with a track record of experience in all areas of an oral health promotion service. The aims of the service are to deliver an efficient and effective oral health promotion service and reduce inequalities in oral health and access to dental services across the life course in: — children, with a focus on young children, — children and young people with special needs, — children and adults with special needs. Further information regarding the service delivery and questionnaire requirements can be obtained via www.londontenders.org The objectives of the service are to: — collaboratively develop, model and implement an evidence-based programme of oral health promotion for the specified population across Redbridge, — integrate oral health promotion into children’s commissioning and the broader public health agenda, — train health, education and social care professionals in key oral health messages to enable them to provide opportunistic brief oral health intervention, — coordinate and enable delivery of brushing for life programme delivered by health visitor teams at child progress checks at 8 months and 2,5 years within the healthy child programme, — ensure teams supporting children with additional needs are supported to improve their oral health and access appropriate dental services for early prevention, — develop and deliver oral health promotion training to primary, community and other frontline staff such as, but not restricted to, school based staff, children centre based staff, health visiting staff, school nursing staff, child care providers, residential and nursing home staff and staff delivering services to other vulnerable adults (i.e. alcohol and substance misuse services), — recruit oral health champions from staff and parents trained as detailed above to act as key oral health promoters in their respective work areas and promote oral health through workshops and events, — develop and deliver a tooth brushing programme in children centre nurseries (3 and 4-years old) and support the linking in of dental practises to promote access for continuing care, — develop links and partnerships with other health organisations, voluntary and community and religious groups to support opportunistic brief oral health intervention, — develop a protocol for the identification and response to concerns linked to possible dental neglect, — deliver a targeted fluoride varnish programme, — support the delivery of the Public Health Outcomes indicator 4.2 — tooth decay in 5-year-old children.