口腔指南共识汇总

Public Health

England

Applies to England

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Background

Maintaining good oral health throughout life and into older age improves general health and wellbeing, and plays an important part in helping people stay

independent

.

The Care Quality Commission report

Smiling matters: oral health care in care homes

showed that too many people living in care homes were not being supported to maintain and improve their oral health. The report contained recommendations to improve the oral health of care home residents, including the implementation of the

NICE

guideline

Oral health for adults in care homes

.

The

NHS long term plan

highlights that individuals need to be supported to have good oral health, stay well hydrated and well-nourished. The NHS Long Term Plan (2019) contained a commitment as part of the Ageing Well Programme to roll out

Enhanced Health in Care Homes

across England. The implementation framework includes oral health care and what best practice looks like.

For local advice on how to improve oral health in care homes contact your consultant in dental public health in your

PHE centre

.

Oral health toolkit for adults in care homes

The oral health toolkit includes

training materials, templates and links to publications

. It’s a live document, with further resources added as they become available. The toolkit consists of the 5 sections below.

Care home residents and their loved ones, families, friends and carers

This section provides links to

oral health information for care home residents

and their families, friends and carers.

Care home staff training resources

This section led by Health Education England includes training slides, a manual with further information, recorded webinars and a catalogue of online videos to support

oral health training

.

Documents for care home managers

The

documents for care home managers

include care home policy templates, a quality assurance checklist and a baseline assessment to help care home managers put

NICE

guidance into practice.

Care home-related publications

This section contains links to

care home-related publications

.

Care home commissioners

This section contains documents and links related to

care home commissioning

.

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