Urgent Care Dentistry MCN

Purpose and Aims

The purpose of the MCN is to provide clinical leadership in order to facilitate patient-centred care. It provides assurance to the Local Dental Network by advising on transformational change, improving clinical effectiveness via improved patient pathways and training/advice, cost-effectiveness, equity of access, efficiency and parity of outcomes 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 is a managed clinical advisory group governed by NHS England providing a link to all specialists and clinicians accepting referrals.

Function of the Urgent Care 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 MCN will:

• Agree a work plan and objectives with NHS England South West Local Dental Network core group
• 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 Employment, Integrated Commissioning Boards (ICBs), Public Health England (PHE) and Local Dental Network (LDN) leads.
• 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 existing 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 Workforce, Training and Employment 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 Workforce Training and Employment Department.
• Report and share the activities that affect theMCN members, in order to support LDNs and commissioners meet the local needs of the population.

MCN Contacts

Jonathan Bouwer-Davies, Chair MCN                       Jonathan.Bouwer-Davies@nhs.net

Jane Impey, Dental Network Manager, NHSE           Jane.Impey@nhs.net

Meetings

MCN meetings are held on a quarterly basis via MC Teams.  The dates of meetings for 2024 are:

January 11^th 2023

March 21^st 2024

July 11^th 2024

October 10^th 2024

Referral Guidance and Forms

NHS England — South West » Dental referral guidance and forms

 Useful Links

All notes and papers from meetings can be found on NHS Futures Platform. Sign up to access here FutureNHS Collaboration Platform – FutureNHS Collaboration Platform