This report monitors NHS boards’ progress made towards the targets at both local and national level and covers the last 6 months of the calendar year 2010.
Background
The Action Plan for Improving Oral Health and Modernising NHS Dental Services was published in 2005. It set out the then Scottish Executive’s policy and plans for dentistry and dental public health for the next 3 years. This plan has brought considerable investment to dentistry: an increase in the NHS funding of primary care dental services. This has been continued with the Scottish Government. To ensure this investment is achieving its goals a range of targets has been set around oral health improvement, primary care dental service delivery and quality, and dental workforce and training.
This report monitors NHS boards’ progress made towards the targets at both local and national level and covers the last 6 months of the calendar year 2010. From November 2010, ISD Scotland is publishing these reports as Official Statistics.