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Phase 2a recovery. You will have received the SDCEP documentation that has been developed to support the resumption of dental services following the COVID19 lock down. These documents will form the basis for NHS Lothian to approve resumption of activity in your practice. Tom Ferris has told the Directors of Dentistry that he will be…

Scottish Dental Clinical Effectiveness Programme Resuming General Dental Services Following COVID-19 Shutdown

Dear NHS Mail User, You are receiving this message to notify you that NHS Mail will be coming to an end, and NHS Scotland are migrating all users onto the Office 365 platform What is happening? The current contract for NHS Mail is coming to end in August 2020, and NHS Scotland have made the…

As we enter another week of this lock down, we are hopefully beginning to see a return to slightly more normal times.

Dear colleagues, I sent out some detail of phase 1 of the CDOs recovery plan yesterday in broad outline. I am conscious that there was a lot of information in that message but append here a second document that sets out in more detail what the Phase 1 recovery service will offer and in many…

Dear Colleague, Please see attached a letter from the CDO regarding the remobilisation of dental services.  As you can see the first element of this is an expansion of the urgent dental care provision to intermediate dental care provision. My letter (DoD update 20th May 2020) describes how this will be implemented in Lothian and…

Scotland’s route map through and out of the crisis.

Remobilisation of NHS Dental Services in Scotland

The purpose of this letter is to inform you of a change to the clinical case definition for COVID-19.

Dental COVID-19 Financial Support Payment Questions & Answers v3.0 – 13/05/2010 (* = new/updated since last version)

Dear Levy payer, Following our previous e-mail we would like to update you on some of our work on your behalf over the last few weeks. We have had meetings with Professor Angus Walls (Director of Dentistry Lothian) , Emma O’Keefe (Consultant in Dental Public Health), David Small and Alison McNeillage ( from NHS Lothian)…

This supplement to the SDCEP guide on the Management of Acute Dental Problems During COVID-19 Pandemic includes information based on the SDCEP Drug Prescribing for Dentistry guidance. It lists the drug regimens that dentists are most likely to remotely advise or prescribe for their patients during the COVID-19 pandemic to support Advice & Self Help…

SDCEP Recommendations for the re-opening of dental services: a rapid review of international sources.

Please ensure that all relevant staff are aware of the attached

Please find attached list of pharmacy opening times for the public holiday on 4/5/20. The opening times for Clarks Pharmacy, Polwarth Pharmacy & Lloyds Linlithgow have been amended from the earlier email and are highlighted in yellow. Pharmacy Holiday Hours 2020 May PH

Incident Reporting & Investigation Centre. This information message is sent to draw the attention of Equipment Co-ordinators to information which may be relevant to the safety of equipment and facilities in NHS Boards and Local Authorities. Please find the information below. IRIC is drawing attention to an incident in which someone used alcohol-based hand rub…

You will all be aware of the confusion that abounded with the change of the early public holiday in May from the 4th to the 8th by the UK government and then by NHSL deciding that it would continue with the 4th as a public holiday and the 8th would be a normal working day.

Thank you for the fantastic response to the request for volunteers from within the GDS workforce, we have close to 400 dentists and a further 200 or so dental nurses / hygienist/therapist / reception staff who have all generously expressed a desire to “do something”. The burning question of course is what!

IA 257 Using Chlorine Based Cleaning agents on PPE

Dear Levy Payer, I hope that you are all keep well and are coping during this unprecedented crisis. We thought it would be useful at this stage of the crisis to send some information out about the local situation. You may have seen this information before, but hopefully this brings it together for you. Attached…