This page has been setup for the dedication of any information relating to COVID-19. The Hampshire and IOW will give you all the available and latest information for you to make your own considered decision in consultation with your NHS contract lead. It is NHSE’s responsibility to officially communicate with you
Please see below the recently published NHS England Infection Prevention and Control Manual and the accompanying dental framework which provides practices with the principles to use to deliver care. This also represents the next steps in healthcare’s continuing transition back to pre-pandemic IPC measures.
Please also find attched the latest dental and oral health update.
IPC Restrictions
NHS England will be returning to usual contracting arrangements from Q2 2022/23 onwards, as indicated in their letter 5th April 2022. Orthodontic services have been working to usual contracting arrangements since 1 April 2022 and this will continue. Details of the changes are set out in the infographic below.
The full year income protection set at 90% of contracted activity for practices exiting the prototype programme will continue, as previously communicated.
In line with this return to usual contracting arrangements, activity delivered by Dental Foundation Trainees will no longer be accrued as practice activity as of 1st July 2022.