PRJ2021 Urgent Dental Care Phase 2 Direct Award C - Broadway Dental - Enfield

The service will provide urgent dental care for the local population and those visiting London from neighbouring regions or overseas, referred to hereafter as London residents. The objectives of the procurement are to secure services which will: • Provide a good quality UDC service during the times specified for the specific lot • Provide good quality care through the consistent use of clinical treatment protocols including the Faculty of General Dental Practice protocols on antimicrobial prescribing • Ensure that all patients with an urgent dental need have access to a clinical contact at an appropriate time • Ensure that the UDC service works within a 'whole system' approach in providing urgent dental care • Foster innovation and continuous improvement in all aspects of the delivery of the UDC service across London • Enable and support patients to access general, intermediate and specialist dentistry in order to stabilise patients' oral health needs in line with current good practice, i.e. Avoidance of doubt: Provision of Phased Treatments https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads /2018/02/B0615-Update-to-avoidance-of-doubt-provision-of-phasedtreatments-300621-.pdf. • Support patients to stabilise their oral health where necessary • Enable equitable access to all patients with services not compromised by physical (physical ill-health, learning disabilities, medically compromised, children looked after etc) language, social and economic barriers • Provide preventive evidence-based oral health advice according to Delivering Better Oral Health 2021 and in line with Making Every Contact Count • Provide agreed data recording (including non-attendance) at scheduled intervals to ensure the clinical service is meeting the needs of the population • Ensure UDC services provide best value for money Additional information: An UDC service is required in every borough of London, following the earlier UDC PRJ1205 tender we have 5 further boroughs that we would like to Procure those services for. Procurement will be following the new PSR (Provider Selection Regime) Direct award C process