Lancashire and south Cumbria launch oral health improvement project

By launching its dental access and oral health improvement programme, the ICB wants to help those with the greatest need get access to NHS dentistry. It also hopes to improve public understanding of NHS dental services and how to best look after their oral health.

The programme will focus on where investment should be prioritised, improving patient pathways, communications to the public and to staff, supporting retention and recruitment of the dental workforce and contract management.

Dentist Clare Granger, a senior clinical fellow for the ICB, said, “We know that access to NHS dental services is a big issue at the moment and we receive a lot of comments from local people who are struggling to access an NHS dentist.