--- title: "Oral Health Promotion in Children in Kingston" ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-0435db" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-0435db" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-0435db.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-0435db.json" source: "Find A Tender Service" current_stage: "Planning" buyer: "THE ROYAL BOROUGH OF KINGSTON UPON THAMES" published: "2024-01-30" --- # Oral Health Promotion in Children in Kingston Buyer: THE ROYAL BOROUGH OF KINGSTON UPON THAMES Current stage: Planning OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-0435db [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-0435db) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-0435db.json) ## Summary The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames has issued a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) intended approach notice for the procurement of Oral Health Promotion in Children in Kingston. The contract aims to improve the oral health of children under 12 in Kingston by providing various interventions over a 3-year period. The procurement stage is currently in the planning phase, with the deadline for providers to express interest set for midday on 13th February 2024. This tender presents an opportunity for businesses involved in dental practice and related services to compete for providing oral health promotion interventions in Kingston. Businesses offering oral health education programs, toothbrushing initiatives, and health education support are well-suited to participate. The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames will be awarding the contract based on the most suitable provider process, offering potential growth opportunities for businesses in the services sector. ## Notice The proposed service aims to improve the oral health of children (aged under 12) and to reduce oral health inequalities in this Kingston population, by providing Oral Health Promotion interventions over a 3 year period (2024/25, 2025/26, 2026/27) including an early years supervised toothbrushing programme, oral health education in selected primary schools, and provision and education support of toothbrush packs through Health Visitor child development checks. - Develop and maintain an early years supervised toothbrushing programme (STP), with a focus on maintained nurseries; - Extension of the priority primary schools oral health education scheme which is already being delivered, into 10 further schools - Provision of toothbrush packs and education to under 5s and their parents/ carers through health visitor child development milestone checks. ### Lot Information Lot 1 The service will improve the oral health of children (aged under 12) and help to reduce oral health inequalities in this Kingston population, by providing Oral Health Promotion interventions over a 3 year period. The service provision will be as follows: 1. Develop and maintain an early years supervised toothbrushing programme for children aged under 5, within nursery and childcare settings, with a particular focus on implementation within maintained nurseries in schools. Partnership work will be established with early years teams to introduce the scheme initially amongst maintained schools and rolled out to other nursery settings thereafter. A programme of training and support for settings, as well as other quality assurance mechanisms is expected to follow the standardised national toolkit (Ref: GOV.UK (2016). Improving oral health: supervised tooth brushing programme toolkit. [online] Available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/improving-oral-health-supervised-tooth-brushing-programme-toolkit 2. Extend the existing priority primary schools oral health education scheme into 10 further schools. Toothbrush packs should be procured and provided with supporting evidence-based information learning materials to all nursery and Key Stage 1 children, all Year 4 and Year 6 pupils , and additional year groups where possible. A key contact in each school will be established, and a minimum of one set of face-to-face classroom teaching and assemblies annually will be delivered alongside toothbrush packs to all those within the targeted cohorts of school children. 3. Toothbrush packs and education for the under 5s and their parents/ carers will be provided through health visitor child development milestone checks at 6 and 12 months, and 2-2.5 years. This delivery of proactive oral health discussion between health visitors and parents/ carers will be supported by training provision by the service provider for the clinical staff teams. ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Find A Tender Service | | Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/003130-2024 | | Notice type | Planning Notice | | Procurement type | Standard | | Procurement category | Services | | Procurement method | Not Specified | | Procurement method details | Not specified | | Tender suitability | Not specified | | Awardee scale | Not specified | | All stages | Planning | ## Dates | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication date | 30 Jan 2024 | | Submission deadline | Not specified | | Future notice date | 21 Feb 2024 | | Award date | Not specified | | Contract period | Not specified | | Recurrence | Not specified | ## Values | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender value | Not specified | | Lots value | Not specified | | Awards value | Not specified | | Contracts value | Not specified | ## Status | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender status | Planned | | Lots status | Planned | | Awards status | Not specified | | Contracts status | Not specified | ## Buyer | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Main buyer | THE ROYAL BOROUGH OF KINGSTON UPON THAMES | | Locality | KINGSTON | | Post town | Kingston upon Thames | | Postcode | KT1 1EU | | Country | England | | ITL 1 | TLI London | | ITL 2 | TLI6 Outer London - South | | ITL 3 | TLI63 Merton, Kingston upon Thames and Sutton | | Local authority | Kingston upon Thames | | Electoral ward | Kingston Town | | Westminster constituency | Kingston and Surbiton | | Delivery location | TLI63 Merton, Kingston upon Thames and Sutton | ## CPV Codes ### Divisions - 85 - Health and social work services ### Codes - 85130000 - Dental practice and related services ## Release History - 30 Jan 2024 at 17:18 - Planning - Planning Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/003130-2024 ## Notice URLs - http://www.kingston.gov.uk - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/improving-oral-health-supervised-tooth-brushing-programme-toolkit ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. 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