Purpose and Aims

The purpose of the Restorative MCN is to facilitate patient-centred care, and its aims are to advise on transformational change, to improve clinical effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, equity of access, efficiency and offer parity of outcome in service delivery. The MCN Chair will be linked via the Local Dental Network Chair, into the Regional Chief Dental Office.

The aim of the MCN is to offer a way of working where clinicians from all settings across the clinical care pathway can focus on patients and improving services. The MCN aims to advise on transformational change, to improve clinical effectiveness, equity of access, efficiency and offer parity of outcome in service delivery.  The MCN is a managed group governed by NHS England providing a link to all specialists and clinicians accepting referrals. Supporting NHS England – South Wests Dental Collaborative commissioning Hub.  The chair will also be linked via the Local Dental Network Chair, into the Regional Chief Dental Office.

Function of the Restorative MCN

The MCN links all clinicians from primary, salaried, secondary and tertiary care to work in a co-ordinated manner, unconstrained by existing professional and organisational boundaries to ensure equitable provision of high quality, clinically effective services.

The Restorative MCN is an NHS England managed clinical leadership advisory group which will:

• Agree a work plan and objectives with NHS England South West Dental LDN
• Interface with the LDN to contribute to local planning and prioritisation and to agree objectives and report on progress.
• Receive and consider information on clinical needs assessments, service delivery, quality, treatment outcomes, cost-effectiveness and equity of access data, in order to advise NHS England, Workforce, Training and Education, Public Health England (PHE) and Local Professional Network (LDN) leads.
• Contribute to the development and subsequent implementation of strategies that will improve service care provision.
• Contribute to the development of referral management systems.
• Support the implementation of evidence-based pathways of the best and most cost-effective patient care across all sectors of service provision (i.e. primary, secondary and tertiary care).
• Review extant systems and approaches in other localities, in order to adopt and or adapt those that are efficient and effective.
• Ensure there is a mechanism for patients’ views on their local clinical services to be expressed and heard.
• Advise on criteria to improve quality, value and treatment outcomes.
• Contribute to an appraisal system for providers in collaboration with the South West Workforce, Training and Education and other appropriate bodies.
• Communicate with and about general dental and primary care practitioners/providers to identify where performance could be improved in delivery of what is expected of primary care to guide CCH.
• Advise on areas where further education would be beneficial and, in particular communicate this to WT&E.
• Report and share the activities and effect of the MCN, in order to support the LDN and commissioners meet the local needs of the population.
• The MCN is a managed structure integral to NHS England commissioning process.

Meetings

MCMN meetings are held on a quarterly basis via MS Teams.  Recordings and notes from each meeting can be found on the NHS Futures Platform, South West Dental Network: FutureNHS Home – FutureNHS Collaboration Platform

Members

Clinical Chair: Alex Pollard, Consultant in Restorative Dentistry

Email: england.sw.restorativedentmcn@nhs.net

Dental Network Manager : Joanne Purvis

Email : joanne.purvis2@nhs.net

Core Membership

• MCN Chair and Consultant in Paediatric Dentistry
• Regional Chief Dental Officer or Deputy RCDO
• Network Manager
• Regional clinical leads from secondary care
• Workforce, Training and Education
• Collaborative Commissioning Hub
• Consultant(s) in Dental Public Health
• LDC chair or representatives
• Dental Care Professional Representative
• Primary Dental Care Representative