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Paul Stone, Blackhills’ clinical director
News Antibiotics THE RESISTANCE FIGHTBACK
Dentists are being asked to help in the fight to tackle the growing threat of antibiotic resistance.
Peak practice
Perthshire’s Blackhills Clinic has been selected to demonstrate best practice in management in a highly influential govern- ment review publication. It is the first time that a Scottish practice
has been asked to contribute to the Parlia- mentary Review that highlights outstanding leadership across the UK. Paul Stone, Blackhills’ clinical director,
said: “I couldn’t believe that we had been selected as the only UK dental practice to give a report to such a prestigious and highly- regarded publication. “We have been asked to respond to the 20ı4
Review topic of raising standards in private healthcare which is an issue we really believe in and work hard to maintain within the clinic and among all the staff and specialists.” Paul will work with his team at their
Auchterarder clinic on compiling their report which, when published in December, will
reach ı50,000 people. The aim of the review is to highlight the best practice of outstanding leaders in their field so the contributors, such as Blackhills, can act as templates for reform, development and improvement. Parliamentary Review director Daniel
Yossman said: “We don’t just pluck businesses out of the air for the review. Experienced research staff work tirelessly to source the outstanding practitioners in each sector whose work and good practice set them apart as key influencers. “This is the first year we have featured
a private healthcare review because we wanted to look at how it worked differently to the NHS. Blackhills Clinic is seen as an outstanding representative and their example will help to raise standards and set agenda within their field for years to come.” The Parliamentary Review 20ı4 will be released in December.
No doubts about it SCOTS STUB IT OUT
The number of Scots who successfully gave up smoking for at least a month has exceeded targets by more than 50 per cent. Figures released by ISD
Scotland show the smoking cessation target to deliver 80,000 one-month quits were exceeded by 56 per cent with 124,734 people giving up the habit between 1 April 2011 and 31 March 2014.
A target of 48,000 quits in Scotland’s most deprived areas was also exceeded, with 70,162 saying they had given up. In total, across NHS Scotland there were 332,285 quit attempts over the last three years. Welcoming the figures, Michael Matheson, Minister for Public Health, said: “Giving up smoking is the single best thing anyone can do to improve their health.”
The Scottish Antimicrobial Prescribing Group (SAPG), which is leading Scotland in this year’s European Antibiotic Awareness Day (EAAD) on 18 November, is calling on dentists to act to reduce unnecessary prescribing and also raise awareness among patients that antibiotics are not always the best treatment for dental infections.
Dentists will be asked to display specially developed posters and patient informa- tion leaflets in their surgeries to support the campaign, as well as being encouraged to sign a pledge to help reduce unneces- sary prescribing.
SAPG project lead Dr Jacque- line Sneddon said: “While Scotland has made substan- tial progress in improving the quality of prescribing, we still have more to do to ensure we are better placed to tackle the growing threat of antibiotic resistance.”
Lanarkshire all smiles
NHS Lanarkshire is officially the best performing mainland health board in providing dental fluoride varnish applications to children. The health board deliv-
ered at least two applications of fluoride varnish to 64.56 per cent of children aged three and four, in its worst performing quintile, compared to a national average of 19.64 per cent. Albert Yeung, consultant
in dental public health, said: “This project has seen dental teams work in educational
establishments focusing on children living in the most deprived areas of Lanarkshire. “This is an area that NHS
Lanarkshire excels in. I would like to congratulate the dental staff working throughout Lanarkshire for their fantastic achievement.” Such has been the success of
the programme in Lanarkshire that Dr Yeung was invited recently to deliver a lecture at a international conference in India that showcased the Scottish Childsmile and Smile4life programmes.
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