Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will make an assessment of recent trends in the level of oral health problems in care home residents in the West Midlands.
In 2016, Public Health England (PHE) reported on oral health in older people in England and Wales using data from existing surveys, which included information from a 2011 care home survey conducted in the West Midlands. The report can be accessed here:
The West Midlands survey involved a clinical examination as well as a manager and resident questionnaire component.
At present, PHE has no plans to undertake a survey of the oral health of people in care homes.