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22 December 2021
NHS England has provided an update on planned changes to dental contractual requirements for Q4 of this year and for 2022. The update, which states that the recently revised IPC guidance "allows us to take a further significant step towards the full recovery of NHS dental provision" sets out the following changes:
Quarter 4 2021/2022
April 2022 onward
The update also confirms that the currently published dental appendix to the IPC guidance remains applicable in light of the Omicron variant, including practice risk assessments and implementation of mitigations in line with the hierarchy of controls with an emphasis on ventilation throughout the practice and in particular areas where AGPs are undertaken. All patients should be screened for potential COVID-19 infection, ideally prior to attendance at the setting and on arrival, using the COVID-19 screening questions.
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Read the letter