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Funding for dental hospital IT systems
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Last modified date:7 October 2008
An extra £11 million will be allocated to dental hospitals across England to fund new IT systems that will support the training of dental students.
Today's funding is part of a joint initiative by the Department, NHS Connecting for Health and the Dental IT programme board.
As well as training future dental care professionals, NHS dental hospitals and associated dental schools research ways to improve oral and dental health and provide specialist clinical services for patients.
The £11 million will be divided between each of the 10 trusts that applied for funding.
The trusts will have responsibility for using the money to train dental students in the use of clinical computer programmes that they will use in practice. IT systems may include:
- core applications under the National Programme for IT, such as patient administration systems, N3, Choose and Book, picture archiving and communication systems and access to the NHS Care Record Service
- clinical dental systems
- resource management
- support for the teaching of students.
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