{"id":94354,"date":"2018-07-26T10:50:33","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T10:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=448faee83551a75004fbdeafaa404bee"},"modified":"2018-07-26T10:50:33","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T10:50:33","slug":"news-story-new-dental-care-approach-to-be-expanded-after-trial-reduces-tooth-decay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=94354","title":{"rendered":"News story: New dental care approach to be expanded after trial reduces tooth decay"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Up to 50 practices in England will be selected to join the 73 currently testing a new approach to dental care.<\/p>\n<p>The new system incentivises dentists to offer full oral health assessments and self-care plans on top of traditional treatments.<\/p>\n<p>In the first year of piloting the new approach, dentists reported that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>90% of patients had reduced or maintained levels of tooth decay<\/li>\n<li>80% of patients had reduced or maintained levels of gum disease<\/li>\n<li>97% of patients said they were satisfied with the dental care they received<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The recently published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/dental-contract-reform-evaluation-report-2016-to-2017\">evaluation report<\/a> from the first year of testing recommended that a further group of dental practices should be recruited into the programme.<\/p>\n<p>The new practices are currently being selected and will join from October 2018 and January 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The existing 73 practices are continuing to test the new approach, with a new remuneration system added which supports dentists carrying out preventative work.<\/p>\n<p>The scheme could be rolled out nationally from April 2020 if it can be shown to benefit patients, the NHS and dental practice following a thorough evaluation.<\/p>\n<p>Health Minister Steve Brine said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The government has made great progress in improving the oral health of patients and tooth decay among children continues to decrease \u2012 but there is more we can do.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Our new proposed NHS dental contract focuses on prevention and quality of care and will be thoroughly tested to ensure it is financially sustainable for the NHS, patients and dentists.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Chief Dental Officer Sarah Hurley said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The announcement of up to 50 more prototype practices is an important step in developing the NHS dental service in this its 70th year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">I welcome it and hope that further refinement and testing with the profession will lead us to a model that enables dentists and their teams to play their full part in the delivery of integrated care and further improvement of oral and general health.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More NHS dental practices will be joining a scheme for prevention-focused dental care following successful results where it has been tested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}