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Dental exemptions for dental hygienists and dental therapists

Charlotte Murray, 28 November 2024
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A new learning programme is available for dental hygienists and dental therapists to help navigate the changes under law, to supply and administer medicines within the Exemption framework (Human Medicines Regulations 2012), supporting the care of patients.

The elearning, developed in partnership with NHSE WT&E, comprises of six sections which include case studies and peer discussion as part of the learning and will take learners approximately 2 hours to complete. Although this programme was designed for dental hygienists and dental therapists, other members of the dental team may also find this learning useful.

The programme supports dental hygienists and dental therapists to apply these regulatory changes in practice. The elearning will link to activities dental professionals already undertake under Patient Group Directions (PGD), or as part of normal working using Patient Specific Directions (PSD) and will ask learners to extend this knowledge to working under exemptions.

You can access this new programme via the NHS Learning Hub.

The training launch follows on from the publication of the guidance on the supply and administration of medicines by dental hygienists and dental therapists, and the recently held webinar for contractors, dental hygienists and therapists.

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