The Scottish Government’s Oral Health Improvement Plan 2018 makes provision for ensuring that residents of care homes also continue to receive regular effective dental care. Domiciliary care arrangements should enable an accredited practitioner to be assigned to a care home to provide routine preventative oral health care to care home residents.
Sadly our attempts to provide an appropriate chair for Tigh Chridhe Uile Naomh was voted down on this occasion. However it did emerge that appropriate chairs may exist in storage in the Western Isles.We will continue to investigate to secure Oral Health Improvement for where it is most needed.