Recurring concern
Failure to ensure timely required dental care for care-home residents
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Request correctionFirst reported 17 Apr 2019•Latest report 4 Nov 2022
What this concern includes
Includes failures of the dental-care process for care-home residents, including identifying dental need, arranging or accessing dental appointments, and providing timely required treatment such as denture updating or replacement.
Not included
- Excludes generic care-home staffing, communication, documentation or policy deficiencies unless they directly impair timely required dental care for residents.
- Excludes general dental-service capacity problems without a specific effect on care-home residents' access to required care.
- Excludes oral-health education or routine dental-care descriptions that do not identify an unsafe delay, omission or unreliable control.
- Excludes choking, nutrition or other clinical risks unless the asserted deficiency is specifically a failure to provide required dental care.
- Reports
- 2
- Individual concerns
- 3
- Date range
- 2019–2022
- Stated actions
- 0
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* 2026 is projected from reports observed to 7 Sep 2026.
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Concerns and responses across reports
Only concerns grouped under this recurring concern are included. Select any concern, action or position to view the source wording.
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Concerns raised1
Delays in updating or replacing care home residents' dentures
This report raised 3 other concerns. They are not shown here because they do not form part of this recurring concern.
Responses linked to these concernsEach statement is shown once, even when linked to more than one concern.
No linked response statementsNo respondent-stated action or position is linked to these concerns in the published data.
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Concerns raised2
Lack of adequate policies for identifying when dental appointments may be required
Failure to place adequate importance on the provision of dental services to residents
This report raised 2 other concerns. They are not shown here because they do not form part of this recurring concern.
Responses linked to these concernsEach statement is shown once, even when linked to more than one concern.
No linked response statementsNo respondent-stated action or position is linked to these concerns in the published data.
Data last updated 7 September 2026