Are you ready for National Smile Month? Chrissy Akwei and our Mouthcare champions have a varied timetable planned - take a look - get involved 👅🪥🦷🥛 North Manchester General Hospital #mouthcarematters

🦷Mouthcare Champion Training:
SLTs Lucy & Natasha explored the importance of effective mouthcare, provided education on high risk patients & discussed barriers with our wonderful colleagues on Stroke & Neurology - Ward 6.

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Celebrating Experience of Care Week. Clinicians at NCH&C lead quality improvement projects to enhance patient experiences. Projects include better mouthcare for End-of-Life patients & using VR for patients with Learning Disabilities. Read more: nchc-voice.tfemagazine.co.uk/april-2024/for…
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Talking everything IDDSI, nutrition and mouthcare today at the Care Support Worker summit! 🪥🧀🍽️

New update on our Care to Smile programme - see below 🥰🦷
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Week 3 of our mouthcare trolley dashes and some great discussions yesterday including how we support our patients to undertake oral hygiene whilst they’re in hospital Sarah Herbert Gail Byrne Jennifer Milner #mouthcarematters #fundamentalsofcare

Stroke strikes every five minutes Stroke Association As dental professionals we must be able to provide care for stroke survivors & understand the impacts on communication, swallowing, physical impairment prevention . Register for our spring meeting, details below 👇

Section on eating, drinking ,hearing, vision, mental health but no mouthcare/teeth. A painful mouth, dental disease leads to problems eating and can contribute to poor mental health NIHR ARC Kent, Surrey and Sussex BDA BSG

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We're reviewing our mouthcare guidelines. Please follow RCN guidelines for basic mouthcare. Mouth Care Matters is a fantastic resource/encyclopea of information Dr SallyBoa The RCN Annabel Howell APMEducationHub Sandra Campbell(FRCN)

Another FOC visit and todays learning, don’t wash out often out after brushing, it removes the fluoride! Glad to see such engagement around an issue that so important to our pts experience of care University Hospital Southampton 💙 Julie Brooks 💙 Naomi Wilson Jennifer Milner Gail Byrne

NIHR ARC Kent, Surrey and Sussex This is a lovely resource but a shame to omit guidance on how people living with dementia can maintain a healthy mouth.Abundant evidence that oral health deteriorates leading to pain & poor QOL BSG prevention in early diagnostic is key

It was great to get out and about yesterday, completing more Fundamentals of Care trolley dashes. This time we were focusing on the importance of good Mouthcare in our Cancer Care wards. Julie Brooks 💙 Sarah Herbert Jennifer Milner 💙

The IPC ‘spring clean’ campaign got off to a great start promoting all things relating to patient hygiene.Thanks to all areas we have visited so far for the great staff engagement #octenisan #cathetercare #cautiprevention #patienthandhygiene #mouthcarematters #scrubthehub #NuTH

Out and about again for #foc , do you offer patients the opportunity to brush their teeth or have a mouth wash if they vomit, not just an antiemetic? Great discussions in T&O today @uhsft #mouthcarematters Julie Brooks 💙 Naomi Wilson Jennifer Milner

Good oral health is essential post #stroke to prevent complications and ensure patients feel clean and comfortable. Craig J Smith provided a great update on this topic and the CHOSEN trial at our recent annual conference.
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Fantastic afternoon on our medicine for older people’s wards talking all things mouthcare. Great engagement from our staff #mouthcarematters #fundamentalsofcare University Hospital Southampton 💙 Sarah Herbert Naomi Wilson Gail Byrne

People with Parkinson’s disease may struggle with oral health issues including drooling, facial pain, dental diseases. Some useful information below ⁦Parkinson's UK⁩ #worldparkinsonsday parkinsons.org.uk/information-an…

Everyday is a learning day with #fundamentalsofcare did you know you don’t brush dentures with toothpaste?!! A great trolley dash, mouthcare so important to our patients ⁦Naomi Wilson⁩ ⁦Gail Byrne⁩ ⁦Jennifer Milner⁩ ⁦Julie Brooks 💙⁩

All set up and ready to start our mouthcare trolley dashes as part of Aprils fundamentals of care focus University Hospital Southampton 💙 Sarah Herbert Naomi Wilson Gail Byrne #mouthcarematters

The IPC team are launching the ‘spring clean’ campaign today. We will be visiting wards and dept’s over the month of April to talk about all things relating to patient hygiene. #octenisan #cathetercare #cautiprevention #mouthcarematters #scrubthehub