Oral health assessment


The audit trail U


nder their NHS terms of service, general dental practitioners (GDPs) ar e


required to undertake 15 hours of clinical audit in each three- year cycle. Traditionally, audit has not been a particularly favoured activity of many dentists in the GDS and this has often been reflected in poor levels of compliance. To help GDPs meet their


audit requirements, several topics were considered as focal areas for a national audit, which could be implemented before the deadline set by the Scottish Government Health Department. In June 2011, with the aim of helping GDPs meet the revised audit deadline


Focal areas for national audit to help GDPs meet their requirements, by Alan Walker and Linda Young


of 31 August 2011, a national, pre-approved, online audit on Oral Health Assessment (OHA) was made available via the NHS Portal. The Scottish Dental Clin-


ical Effectiveness Programme (SDCEP), in collaboration with other interested parties within NHS Education for Scotland, was asked to develop the audit tool. The timely development and provision of the audit was only possible due to the recent publication of SDCEP’s Oral


Health Assessment and Review (OHAR) guidance (www. sdcep.org.uk), and the availability of data collection tools and infor- mation from the Translational Research in a Dental Setting (TRiaDS) programme’s earlier


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