World Breastfeeding Week is an annual celebration, held every year from 1 to 7 August. Over the next 7 days, we'll be promoting the services that can support your breastfeeding journey in Bolton.

Great day yesterday for the Healthy Families Team at Moss Bank Park’s HAF Event. Lots of Oral Health advice given to children parents & carers. Children enjoyed our game of guessing how much sugar was in certain drinks Bolton NHS Foundation Trust Bolton Council Lorna Dibnah Jean Holgate

Jennifer Goulden Bolton NHS Foundation Trust Bolton Council Lorna Dibnah Well Done everyone! Fantastic display 😃

We hope you've enjoyed the past week getting to know some of our services as part of World Breastfeeding Week Videos to help mums 📽️ Topics include the first feed, how to get breastfeeding off to a good start & where mums can get help with breastfeeding boltonft.nhs.uk/news/2022/08/b…

Great morning at Laburnum Lodge Care Home delivering ‘Smiles Better’ mouth care training. Our oral health simulator brings a great practical experience to our training programme. 🦷 🪥 we have been recieving great feedback. Bolton NHS Foundation Trust Bolton GP Federation Bolton Council

Important learning from Rebecca Lloyd on #supervisedtoothbrushing in Wales where 60,000 children are involved

NOHPG study day was informative Each topic was extremely interesting and zmarshman gave a great up date on #BRuSH optimising supervised tooth brushing programme in England, great to see the programme grow. Public Health Bolton Bolton NHS Foundation Trust Bolton Start Well Jean Holgate

Lorna Dibnah NOHPG Public Health Bolton Bolton NHS Foundation Trust Bolton Start Well Jean Holgate Lovely to meet you, Jean and so many others committed to improving children’s oral health through #supervisedtoothbrushing

zmarshman Lorna Dibnah NOHPG Public Health Bolton Bolton NHS Foundation Trust Bolton Start Well Lovely to meet you too! Thank you for a fantastic presentation today! Supervised tooth brushing is such an important evidence-based intervention to reduce dental disease.

Yesterday I attended Bright Meadows open day, I met Ruby Department of Education’s Family Hubs Lead and many others and got the opportunity to explain the benefits of the family hubs to the communities in Bolton Public Health Bolton Bolton Start Well Bolton NHS Foundation Trust Jean Holgate #oralhealth

Big congratulations to Sam and Tina at Swallowfield Gardens nursing home who won our oral cancer awareness month competition. Your display is fabulous and it highlights good mouthcare to staff, residents and visitors. Bolton NHS Foundation Trust Public Health Bolton Bolton Council Mandymop

Lots of families received Important Oral Health Messages this evening at Castle Hill primary school parents evening 🦷🪥Lorna Dibnah Bolton NHS Foundation Trust Bolton Council

Pleased to share the findings of our feasibility study of the First Dental Steps intervention to improve children’s oral health with health visiting teams and families ⁦NIHR SPHR⁩ ⁦iHV⁩ ⁦British Assn. for the Study of Community Dentistry⁩ ⁦BSPD⁩ search.app/U2vkY9LwVVCwWh…

Delighted to hear of £11 million to LAs for supervised toothbrushing in schools & nurseries. This covers the key facilitators of implementation from our BRUSH research - funding, supplies & local delivery to those children who will most benefit ⁦ search.app/opDbLvFU8RPbDE…

School and nursery staff in the most deprived areas of England will be asked to supervise young children while they brush their teeth. Health correspondent Sophie Hutchinson had more details on #BBCBreakfast bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Fantastic to see zmarshman talking about her research School of Clinical Dentistry | Sheffield with Paediatric Dentistry at Leeds regarding school based tooth brushing which has had funding to be implemented in areas of deprivation! 🦷 BBC News (UK)

See BSPD Spokesperson, Zoe Marshman from The University of Sheffield on today’s BBC Breakfast welcoming the announcement from DHSC on a significant investment from government and an industry partner to support children's oral health: ow.ly/eBii50VcsTb #dentistry #nhsdentistry

This is the first step to address the crisis in children’s oral health. It is clinically informed and evidence-based. Thank you to all at team Department of Health and Social Care and Colgate UK who brought this to fruition. I cannot wait to see what we can achieve together Stephen Kinnock Wes Streeting 🦷

Thank you to #Boltonnhstrust #pikeslanehealthcentre for the Oral Health talks this morning in our EYFS classes. We are all doing our best to keep our teeth clean and healthy 😁🪥🦷

Great work Mandymop