The Department of Health has issued new guidance for NHS organisations to encourage more areas to add fluoride to water supplies and help halt tooth decay.
The document includes information about the roles of primary care trusts and strategic health authorities and good practice on consulting local people on new fluoridation schemes.
To read the guidance, visit www.dh.gov.uk
A teaching trust in central London has been awarded bonus payments of £35m after the sale of two assets, including its stake in a radiology joint venture, helped boost its reported surplus.
Medicine and dentistry applications have risen by 8 per cent between 2017 and 2018 but the number of people applying to do nursing has fallen for the second year running, new data shows.
A survey into how restorative dentistry is paid for has found wide disparity in the funding of the service in the UK, which leads to variations in the service provided, note Ulpee Darbar and Ishpinder Kaur Toor
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