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Guidance development

Guidance development

Scottish Dental Clinical Effectiveness Programme

The Scottish Dental Clinical Effectiveness Programme (SDCEP) is an initiative of the National Dental Advisory Committee (NDAC) and operates within NHS Education for Scotland.

SDCEP was established in 2004 under the direction of the NDAC to give a structured approach to providing clinical guidance for the dental profession. The programme’s primary aim is to develop guidance that supports the provision of quality patient care. SDCEP brings together the best available information that is relevant to oral health care priorities and presents guidance on best practice in a form that can be interpreted easily and implemented. The guidance recommendations may be based on a variety of sources of information, including research evidence, guidelines, legislation, policies and expert opinion as appropriate to the subject. SDCEP guidance takes a variety of forms to suit the diverse topics being addressed.

Recognising that publication of guidance alone may have a limited influence on practice, SDCEP also contributes to the development and evaluation of interventions to enhance the translation of guidance recommendations into practice via the TRiaDS (Translation Research in a Dental Setting; www.triads.org.uk) collaboration.58

All of SDCEP’s activities are overseen by a steering group that includes representatives of guidance development groups and dental institutions in Scotland and the UK. Current membership of this steering group is available at www.sdcep.org.uk.

SDCEP is funded by NHS Education for Scotland (NES). The views and opinions of NES have not influenced the recommendations made in this guidance. 

The Guidance Development Group (GDG) for the updating of this guidance comprised individuals from a wide range of backgrounds including dentistry and other health professions with a role in the management of patients presenting with acute dental problems. 

Heather Ballantyne 
(Chair) 

Senior Dental Officer in Special Care Dentistry, NHS Tayside 

Alyson Brown 

Consultant in Oral Medicine, NHS Tayside 

Beth Burns 

Consultant in Restorative Dentistry and Clinical Lead, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde 

Declan Cairns 

Specialist Trainee Registrar in Dental Public Health, NHS Forth Valley/NHS Grampian 

Duncan Campbell 

Consultant in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, NHS Fife 

Chris Carter 

Assistant Dental Clinical Director and Clinical Lead of Unscheduled Care, NHS Lothian 

Meiling Denney 

General Medical Practitioner; Associate Advisor CPD Connect, NHS Education for Scotland 

Deborah Devlin 

Clinical Services Manager - Dental, NHS 24 & Scottish Emergency Dental Service  

James Ferguson 

Consultant Surgeon in Emergency Medicine, NHS Grampian 

Abdul Haleem 

General Dental Practitioner, Paisley; Lead Dental Practice Advisor, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde 

Caroline Hyland 

General Dental Practitioner; Clinical Director, General Dental Services, NHS Lanarkshire 

John McAnaw 

Associate Clinical Director/Head of Pharmacy, NHS 24; Pharmaceutical Advisor, Scottish Ambulance Service 

Maxine McCabe 

Advanced Clinical Pharmacist, Community Practice, Glasgow; Senior Educator, NHS Education for Scotland 

Iain McKinnon 

Senior Dental Officer, Public Dental Service, NHS Dumfries & Galloway 

Emma O’Keefe 

Consultant in Dental Public Health, NHS Fife/NHS Lothian 

Divyash Patel 

General Dental Practitioner; Clinical Lead, Office of the Chief Dental Officer England 

Rosie Power 

Consultant in Paediatric Dentistry, NHS Tayside 

Ashley Rennie 

Dental Nurse Manager, Public Dental Service, NHS Fife 

Jennifer Rodgers 

Consultant in Dental Public Health and Director of Dentistry, NHS Forth Valley; Head of Dentistry, NHS 24 

Brian Stevenson 

Consultant in Restorative Dentistry, NHS Tayside 

Callum Wemyss 

Clinical Senior Lecturer in Oral Surgery-Oral Medicine Interface & Human Factors, University of Glasgow; Honorary Consultant in Oral Surgery, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde 

 

The Programme Development Team (PDT) operates within NES and is responsible for the guidance development methodology. Working with members of the GDG, the team facilitates all aspects of guidance development. The following members of the PDT were directly involved in the development of this edition of Management of Acute Dental Problems.

Jan Clarkson 

SDCEP Programme Director and Associate Postgraduate Dental Dean, NHS Education for Scotland; Professor of Clinical Effectiveness, University of Dundee 

Samantha Rutherford 

Programme Lead (Guidance), SDCEP, NHS Education for Scotland 

Michele West 

Specialist Research Lead, SDCEP, NHS Education for Scotland; SDCEP Lead for Management of Acute Dental Problems guidance 

Jenny Wilson 

Administrative Officer, NHS Education for Scotland 

Calum Thomson

Administrative Officer, NHS Education for Scotland

 

SDCEP would like to thank all external expert peer reviewers for their valuable feedback.

All contributors to SDCEP, including GDG members and external peer reviewers, are required to declare their financial, intellectual and other relevant interests. At each group meeting, participants are asked to confirm whether there are any changes to these. Should any potential conflicts of interest arise, these are discussed and actions for their management agreed. All declarations of interest and decisions about potential conflicts of interest are available on request.