Islington Oral Health Promotion Team
The Whittington Health Community Dental Services Oral Health Promotion service in Islington is a dedicated team aiming to improve Oral Health in the borough. The service aims to improve oral health for our local communities.
This is achieved by partnering with various education, social care and healthcare services to:
- Provide evidence-based oral health training to staff, stakeholders and service users in line with guidance from Public Health England (PHE) Delivering Better Oral Health (DBOH) National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) etc.
- Improve access to dental services
- Provide access to basic oral health tools, i.e. Appropriate fluoride toothpaste and brushing packs
The team is divided into adult and children services
Children's Services
The children services work actively with early years settings, schools and health services in the boroughs. For example:
- Children centres
- Nurseries
- Schools
- Health visiting teams
- Breast feeding clinics
- School nursing teams
- Family Nurse partnership teams
- Looked after children teams
- Speech and language therapists
- Health and wellbeing teams
- Community events
- Health improvement team
- ESOL groups
Children in Nursey -Year 2 are enrolled on the highly successful, unique and effective community based Fluoride Varnish program with expertly trained dental nurses providing application twice a year in school premises led by the Fluoride vanish lead.
Nurseries and children centres’ are enrolled on the Supervised toothbrushing programme “Teeth for life”after completing PHE training by the OHPs. Camden and Islington are the first boroughs to implement this programme in London.
Adult Services
The adult OHP services work closely with
- Residential nursing and care homes The intervention at care homes is the basis of the NICE and CQC guidance on oral health in care homes
- Learning Disability homes and staff
- Extra care homes Supported living, Sheltered accommodation
- Mental health teams
- Social exclusion groups e.g. adults with drugs and alcohol abuse
- Homeless people
- BAME organizations
- Various charity and community organizations
- Community events
- And a range health teams including:
- Speech and language teams
- District nursing teams
- Occupational therapists
- Clinical Multidisciplinary teams etc.
The adult services produce biannual oral health newsletters with updates on latest guidance, reports and local oral health news and present their work at national conferences.
For more information, please contact the relevant team member.
Islington Zoom Meetings
For the next Islington Zoom events, please contact the OHP Team.
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Last updated14 Oct 2024