Cleaning and hygiene
The National Standards of Healthcare Cleanliness 2021 requires healthcare premises to carry out certain cleaning tasks.
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This advice provides an overview of the requirements that you must follow to meet the recommendations relevant to the country where you practice
Infection prevention and control overview
All health care sectors are subject to stringent infection prevention and control measures, and dentistry is no exception. This advice provides an overview of the requirements that you must follow to meet the recommendations relevant to the country where you practice.
Dental unit waterlines
This advice examines the available evidence on whether bacteria from contaminated dental unit waterlines (DUWLs) pose health risks to patients or team members and provides suggestions for managing identified risks.
More about Dental unit waterlinesInfection control
This advice provides an overview of in-house decontamination requirements that you must follow to meet the recommendations relevant to the country where you practice.
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Health and safety
This collection of articles from BDJ In Practice explores health and safety in the dental practice.
Measles outbreak FAQs
The NHS guidance is that they might have a vaccination – it does no harm if it has already been administered and the patient will always need it, outside of the current outbreak.
There is a risk assessment available for the wider NHS but having a vaccination will do no harm according to the NHS.
The most used vaccine contains porcine gelatine, however, there are such as the Priorix® which is as safe and effective as MMR VaxPro® and does not contain it.
If a case is confirmed or suspected, the exposed person should be excluded from work from the 5th day after the first exposure to 21 days after the final exposure. The NHS provides more detailed advice on control measures.
The NHS MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine advice states that it's important to check you've had both doses if you are a frontline health or social care worker, and staff immunisation status/records should be available.