Guidance

Oral health survey of adults in care homes 2024 to 2025: toolkit

Protocol and documents that fieldworkers should use to collect oral health data for the survey of adults 65 years and older living in care homes 2024 to 2025.

• From: Office for Health Improvement and Disparities
• Published: 6 November 2024

Applies to England

Documents

Oral health survey of adults aged 65 years and older living in care homes, 2024 to 2025: national protocol (to print)

PDF, 1.09 MB, 74 pages

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Appendix C: letter of support care homes, 2024 to 2025 (to print)

PDF, 70.4 KB, 1 page

Appendix D: letter to all care home managers care homes, 2024 to 2025 (editable document to print)

MS Word Document, 95.6 KB

Appendix E: lawful basis for data under GDPR DPA 2018 (to print)

PDF, 72.5 KB, 2 pages

Appendix I: letter to sampled care homes, 2024 to 2025 (editable document to print)

MS Word Document, 79.2 KB

Appendix J: tracking form care homes, 2024 to 2025

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 13.8 KB

Appendix K: Information for prospective participants care homes, 2024 to 2025 (editable document to print)

MS Word Document, 605 KB

Appendix L: Agreement to participate form care homes, 2024 to 2025 (editable document to print)

MS Word Document, 49 KB

Appendix O: survey day sheet care homes, 2024 to 2025 (password protected)

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 20 KB

Appendix P: questionnaire care homes, 2024 to 2025 (to print)

PDF, 240 KB, 9 pages

Appendix Q: examination sheet care homes, 2024 to 2025 (to print)

PDF, 167 KB, 2 pages

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Appendix R: summary sheet care homes, 2024 to 2025

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 20.6 KB

Appendix S: participant consent form for referral care homes, 2024 to 2025 (editable document to print)

MS Word Document, 106 KB

Appendix U: participant referral refusal letter care- homes, 2024 to 2025 (editable document to print)

MS Word Document, 92.7 KB

Details

These documents support the National Dental Epidemiology Programme (NDEP) oral health survey of adults aged 65 years and older living in care homes for the academic year 2024 to 2025.

All the necessary methods and support materials for fieldworkers to carry out this oral health survey are provided here.

The data collection tool and data handling guidance are available to download from the Dental Public Health Epidemiology workspace page.

The findings of these surveys provide comparable details of caries levels and other clinical measures at local authority level. This informs decisions by local authorities, the NHS and other partners.

Published 6 November 2024