Restorative MCN
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 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.
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, Health Education England (HEE) and the Local Dental Network.
- Interface with the LDN to understand wider local priorities and action plans.
- 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 of providers in collaboration with the local Director of Health Education England 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 commissioners.
- Advise on areas where further education would be beneficial and, in particular communicate this to Health Education England.
- 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.
Members
Name | Representing | Designation | |
Claire Forbes Haley | NHS England, Restorative MCN | MCN Chair, Consultant in Restorative Dentistry | |
Fin Bason | Cornwall LDC | LDC representative | |
Lisa Mullarkey | Devon LDC | LDC representative | |
Vinay Shah | Somerset LDC | LDC representative | |
Kevin Brown | Dorset LDC | LDC representative | |
Vacant | Avon LDC | LDC representative | |
Keith George | Wiltshire LDC | LDC representative | |
Ramy Magdy | Gloucestershire LDC | LDC representative | |
Elizabeth King | Bristol Dental School | Consultant in Restorative Dentistry | |
Chris Tredwin | Peninsula Dental School | Head of Peninsula Dental School | |
Musaab Siddidui | Bristol Dental School | Senior Clinical Lecturer | |
Tim O’Brien | Peninsula Dental School | Clinical Associate Professor in Restorative Dentistry (Deputy MCN Chair) | |
Rachel Tabor | Somerset NHS Foundation Trust | Specialist Prosthodontist | |
Federico Foschi | Peninsula Dental School | Professor and Honorary Consultant in Endodontics | |
Ana Gamboa | Bristol Dental School | Consultant in Periodontology | |
Alistair Morton | Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust | Consultant Oral Surgeon | |
Angharad Truman | Bristol Dental School | Specialist in Restorative Dentistry | |
Catherine Drysdale | Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust | Specialist in Restorative Dentistry | |
Lisa McNally | UHBW Bristol Dental Hospital | Consultant in Restorative Dentistry | |
Christopher Munn | Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust | Specialist in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery | |
Simon Ellis | University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust | Consultant in Restorative Dentistry | |
Matthew Bernard-Roper | UHBW Bristol Dental Hospital | Consultant in Restorative Dentistry | |
Elaine Reynolds | Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust | Service Manager | |
Lucy Elliott | Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | General Manager | |
Sarah Garner | UHBW Bristol Dental Hospital | Specialist Trainee in Restorative Dentistry | |
Lucy Silk | Health Education England, South West Region | Dental Tutor | |
Harriet Buley-Snell | Health Education England, South West Region | Dental Hygienist | |
Joanne Purvis | NHS England | Dental Network Manager | |
Amy Claridge | NHS England | Programme Manager (Dental Reform) | |
Matt Jerreat | NHS England | South West Local Dental Network Chair, Consultant in Restorative Dentistry | |
Tessa Fielding | NHS England | Programme Manager (Devon, Cornwall, Dorset & Somerset) | |
Jo Lawton | NHS England | Programme Manager (BNSSG, BSW and Gloucestershire) |
Meetings
MCN meetings are held on a quarterly basis via MC Teams. The dates of meetings for 2022/23 are:
23rd November 2022
Referral Guidance and Forms
Click here to view referral guidance and forms.