Coronavirus: Dental Services
(asked on 19th March 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when further guidance will be issued on dentistry during the covid-19 outbreak.
NHS England has issued a series of guidance notes setting out expectations for primary care dentistry to minimise spread of disease and protect dentists and patients during the current pandemic. The advice includes radically reducing the number of routine check-ups and agreeing local arrangements to consolidate, where necessary, the provision of any essential, routine National Health Service work that cannot be delayed and urgent dental problems. The full series of guidance notes is available at:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/coronavirus/primary-care/dental-practice/
The latest guidance was issued on 15 April 2020. This included the fourth dental preparedness letter as well as guidance on standard operating procedures: