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Liz Kay to help improve oral health in care homes

Liz Kay to help implement NICE guidelines on care homes

Professor Liz Kay has been appointed as a specialist committee member on the oral health promotion in care homes and hospitals Quality Standards Advisory Committee at the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). Liz said: ‘This is a huge honour and a great opportunity to help form improvements to oral health promotion in health care environments where there is need.’

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Patients going to GP with toothache cost NHS £26 million

Patients going to GP with toothache cost NHS Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â£26 million

The Times reports that hundreds of thousands of GP appointments are being taken by patients with toothache as they try to avoid rising fees for NHS dentists. The article, co-written by health editor Chris Smyth and GDP, Neel Kothari, says that data from a study of 280,000 GP consultations over ‘tooth problems’ was used to estimate that 600,000 appointments a year are made by patients seeking dental care, costing the NHS more than £26 million a year.

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Hospital turns away 25-stone patient

An NHS dental service turned away 25-stone chef suffering unbearable toothache because he was too fat, according to a newspaper report. Andrew Keitley, 55, was told by staff members at St David's Hospital in Cardiff that the dental chair would not be able to hold his weight. He had disclosed his weight on a registration form at the practice.

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Access problems to NHS dentistry rising

Problems with access to NHS dentistry rising

The waiting list to see an NHS dentist in Exeter has increased by nearly five times in a year, a local paper reports. Bradford MP, Judith Cummins, asked Ministers to increase the number of NHS dentists practising in her constituency and other areas with significantly above average incidences of oral and dental health problems

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Income boost for defence organisation executives reported

Report on income boost for defence organisations

A report in the GP magazine Pulse says that the UK’s three medical defence organisations have raised salaries and benefits for their top executives by hundreds of thousands of pounds in the past three years amid spiralling medical and dental indemnity fees with some top earners having salaries ‘reach close to £1 million’ last year.

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Research has investigated microbial ecology of perio disease

An international team of researchers and clinicians has charted the microbial ecology of the mouth at all stages of this progression, in nearly 1,000 women in Malawi. This work is laying a foundation of knowledge that could lead to better oral health. The research is published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology, a journal of the American Society for Microbiology.

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