Childsmile
Childsmile is a programme designed to improve the dental health of children in Scotland. It's split into three main elements:
- Childsmile Core, which involves nursery and school toothbrushing schemes, and distributes free toothbrushes and fluoride toothpaste in the first five years of a child's life.
- Childsmile Practice, involving clinical prevention activities.
- Childsmile Nursery and Childsmile School, involving the application of fluoride varnish (FV) to nursery school children's teeth.
ISD is closely involved in the analysis of the fast-growing Childsmile dataset through:
- Data linkage for evaluation and service development.
- Dentists' Childsmile payment analysis.
- Monitoring of Childsmile Core activity.
- Comprehensive management of data used to monitor NHS boards' progress against HEAT target H9.
- Collaboration with the National Information Systems Group of NHS National services Scotland on future IT solutions.
