Author: jboyce

Support for oral health from the start – a wee update

Plans are now well in place to significantly increase the level of dental health promotion and to improve access to dental health services for young children in the Wallyford and Whitecraig areas.  There will be an increase in dental health promotion activity, including the opportunity to access a fluoride tooth varnish scheme in a variety of community settings such as Stay & Play groups, Playgroups, Mother & Toddler groups and nurseries in Wallyford and Whitecraig.

 

 

All children in these areas attending a group in a community setting will be offered a dental health assessment and the opportunity to take part in the Childsmile programme.  This will be backed up by a significant programme of dental health promotion activities in a similar range of local community settings. 

East Lothian CHP HEAT Report

A recent report on East Lothian Community Health Partnership’s (CHP) progress towards meeting the Health Improvement aspects of the Scottish Government’s NHS HEAT Targets is attached below.

Health Improvement Heat Targets – September 2009

These are the areas that the CHP is tasked with developing and reporting on and there are obvious links with many areas of Support from the Start with a significant focus on early years and children’s health.  The targets H2, H3 and H7 in particular on dental health, child healthy weight and infant feeding respectively are obviously linked.

Explicit links are also made with the relevant outcomes from the East Lothian Single Outcome Agreement.

It may be possible to use the data compiled in this report and future updates to set baseline information and monitor progress for some aspects of Support from the Start.

If any service Champions would like further information please feel free to get in touch.

Support for oral health from the start

Following local civic conversations and a short series of Support from the Start facilitated meetings there are now plans to significantly increase the level of dental health promotion and to improve access to dental health services for young children in the Wallyford and Whitecraig areas. 

 

There is likely to be significant activity on dental health promotion, including the opportunity to access a fluoride tooth varnish scheme at a variety of community settings such as Stay & Play groups, Playgroups, Mother & Toddler groups and nurseries.

 

Also under consideration is the provision of a mobile dental treatment service for those children identified through these groups as requiring treatment.

 

Supporting The Best Possible Start For Children In Scotland

NSS Seminar Tuesday 3rd March 2009

In this my first trial post…

Can I draw your attention to a forthcoming National Services Scotland (NSS) seminar entitled ‘NSS – Supporting The Best Possible Start For Children In Scotland’, to be held on Tuesday 3rd March 2009 at the Teacher Building, St Enoch’s Square Glasgow. The seminar runs from 10am to 3.45pm.

The seminar will feature:

Presentations

Presenter

Recent developments in pregnancy / new born screening policy

Dr Ros Skinner

Child health inequalities

Dr Jim Chalmers

Child vaccination / immunisation schedule update

Dr Claire Cameron

 

 

Workshops

Facilitator

The Care of Critically ill Children in Remote and Rural Areas

Dr Andrew McIntyre

Audit of High Dependency Care for Children & Young People in Scotland:  Supporting Scotland‘s Healthcare Planning

Ms Julie Adams

Implications of recently published SGHD report on Early years, early intervention

TBC

Clinical quality and outcome indicators for children’s specialist services

Clare Clark & Alastair Philp

To register for a place, simply complete the registration form on the following link http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/5887.html and click the send button.

Completed forms should be returned no later than Tuesday 24th February.

Please feel free to pass these details on to any colleagues who may be interested in attending. Further seminars will be organised during 2009/2010, details of which will be circulated later in the year.

If you have any queries or require any further information, please contact Bill Dunn in the ISD Customer Relations Group on 0131 275 6234 or by e-mail at bill.dunn@isd.csa.scot.nhs.uk