The DH has produced this guidance in 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.
A clinical governance framework, based on Standards for Better Health, has been developed by the Department of Health to assist PCTs in developing detailed local criteria to assess the standard and quality of primary care dental services provided or commissioned by the PCT.
Following a consultation on the draft framework, the final version is now available for download.
10/05/2006 - A revised version of the clinical governance framework is now available. The previous version was missing themes 8-12 under Supporting Information.
Download the (revised) clinical governance framework.
Primary Care Dental Services Clinical Governance Workbook
The Primary Care Dental Services Clinical Governance Workbook has been produced to provide PCTs with a tool to use to assess achievement of the requirements detailed in the clinical governance framework.
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