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All that stuff I get, but it's largely been described as "supervised toothbrushing in schools", as if that's the headline policy. I saw a clip of Streeting on one of the morning TV couch shows talking about only this and not the wider reform of NHS dentistry.
From the article posted earlier:
the number one reason for young children being admitted to hospital is to extract rotten teeth – because it is so difficult to get NHS dental treatment before tooth decay sets in
If that's the cause, just fix that, surely? It can't just be me that thinks it's weird!
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i don't think you're mad, but it makes a lot of sense when you realise a lot of the "art of the deal" in the real politik space is done like this, the whole structure of it reminds me of my uni politics days doing teaching, lot of very enthusiastic, Liberal people clapping "the kids need heavily ring fenced means tested assistance", famously the same era as this tweet which i present unedited.
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It's a whole load of things.
Dentists used to see children for this type of work because they had the support of their local NHS; which was once something I used to be part of.
That evaporated in 2013 with the Lansley reforms, austerity, and the NHS England drifting into being only concerned with acute care in hospitals.
Lots of schemes were developed in the 2000s to deal with this problem, Scotland, I think still runs one, and they could easily be revived.
But does need local leadership and partnership to make them work.
Suspect some dentists won't treat when they could and they know they won't be held to account. Dental contract doesn't help either.
Clearly, Streeting could have better advice on this but he's not been in contact with me yet.
Maj
Peter_Carter
Think the real policy is to have a proper oral health service for children, of which the tooth brushing is only a part.
Under 5 oral health, or the lack of , is a major problem. It's the biggest cause of admissions to hospital for a GA for children under 5. Sad it's taken so long as we have known about this for nearly 20 years .
Under 5 tooth decay is easily preventable using a number of measures, of which the tooth brushing would be but one.