Oral Health and Mouth Care Training Resources and Support

These page lists relevant guidelines, teaching resources, training support and other useful information relevant to mouth care for care home residents to support those caring for them to maintain their oral health needs.

Oral health toolkit for adults in care homes (UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA)

This oral health toolkit includes training materials, templates and links to publications. It’s a live document, with further resources added as they become available.

The toolkit consists of the 5 sections below:

1. Care home residents and their loved ones, families, friends and carers

This section provides links to oral health information for care home residents and their families, friends and carers.

2. Care home staff training resources

This section led by Health Education England includes training slides, a manual with further information, slides, recorded webinars and a catalogue of online videos to support oral health training.

3. Documents for care home managers

The documents for care home managers include care home policy templates, a quality assurance checklist and a baseline assessment to help care home managers put NICE guidance into practice.

4. Care home-related publications

This section contains links to care home-related publications.

5. Care home commissioners

This section contains documents and links related to care home commissioning.

A short information sheet aimed at social care staff with information about looking after teeth:

How social care staff can support people with learning disabilities to look after their eyes, teeth and ears (publishing.service.gov.uk)

A short information sheet aimed at social care staff about pain management:

How social care staff can recognise and manage pain in people with learning disabilities (publishing.service.gov.uk)

Mouth Care Matters (NHS Health Education England)

MCM is a national Health Education England (HEE) funded training initiative to improve the oral health of patients in hospital and of care home residents through education and training of those caring for them. They have produced resources and also provide training sessions for care home staff regarding mouth care support for adults in care homes. See below for contact details:

Mouth Care Support and Training: South West

Contact for queries and care home staff training requests: mouthcarematters.sw@hee.nhs.uk.

Mouth Care Matters Resources

Home – Mouth Care Matters (hee.nhs.uk).