DENTAL

Government’s response to the Health Select Committee Report on Dental Services (7th October 2008)
The House of Commons Health Select Committee published its report on Dental Services on 2 July 2008. This Command Paper sets out the interim Government response to the conclusions and recommendations in the report. The Committee’s report included 41 conclusions and recommendations. In this response the conclusions and recommendations are addressed in the same numerical order, for ease of reference, as they appear on pages 61-66 of the report. Some are grouped together where they respond to the same issue. Elsewhere there are cross-references to previous responses.
Paper

Guidance for use of the NHS identity in dental practices (10th October 2008)
New guidance has been produced for PCTs and providers of NHS dentistry. This is part of a wider strategy to introduce the NHS identity at all levels of primary care to increase visibility of, and to improve access to, the full range of NHS services.
Guidance
Technical guidance

HTM 01-05: Decontamination in dental practice (14th October 2008)
This guidance has been produced to reflect a reasonable and rational response to emerging evidence around the effectiveness of decontamination in primary care dental practices and the possibility of prion transmission through protein contamination of dental instruments.
Guidance