Oral health improvement service launched in Nottingham

Nottingham City Council is working with Community Dental Services CIC (CDS) to launch a new oral health improvement service. The Nottingham City Oral Health Improvement Team will focus on improving oral health and reducing health inequalities across the city.

Centre: Cllr Woodings and Helen Paisley, CDS CEO, with the new Nottingham City Oral Health Improvement Team

The team will deliver the oral health programmes, based on local need, working with partners to target where they can have the greatest impact, including:

• Supervised tooth brushing programmes in schools and early years settings

• Delivering training to health/non health professionals for both child related and vulnerable adult/older people services

• Supporting care homes to implement NICE and CQC guidelines

• Distributing oral health resources.

Helen Paisley, Chief Executive, is delighted at the opportunity to deliver a new oral health improvement service for Nottingham City: ‘Maintaining good oral health is so important to overall health and wellbeing and quality of life. We are really looking forward to promoting positive oral health messages directly to children through supervised toothbrushing and to people working in care who support groups such as vulnerable elderly in care homes and people with complex needs. The opportunity to work in Nottingham City complements the work of our Nottinghamshire County oral health team and our Nottinghamshire clinical community dental service teams and will really allow us to reach right into the heart of communities across Nottingham.

‘Our oral health teams have great experience in building partnerships and working through established networks to make lasting improvements in oral health where it is needed most, and we are really looking forward to working here in Nottingham.'

To find out more about the service or to book supervised toothbrushing programmes for your setting, visit: https://www.communitydentalservices.co.uk/oral-health-improvement/nottinghamshire-oral-health-page/nottingham-city.