About the Mini Mouth Care Matters programme
Mini Mouth Care Matters (Mini MCM) is an initiative created to empower medical and allied healthcare professionals to make every contact count, and ensure they are addressing oral health when a child or young person either resides within their care or is seen as part of their usual clinical (or non-clinical) contact.
The principle of Mini MCM is to encourage teams to “lift the lip” in order to identify common oral and dental conditions, and to include oral health as part of holistic health care for all children and young people.
Mini Mouth Care Matters training provides teams with the knowledge, skills and tools to ensure oral health care needs are identified and key prevention messages are shared. It incorporates an oral health screening tool to identify patients who may be at a high risk of developing dental decay as we know unmet dental need has the potential to lead to long-term detrimental effects in children including pain, sepsis and compromised growth and development.
Mini MCM was initially funded by Health Education England and is supported by the Children and Young People’s Transformation Programme within NHS England for the training of non-dental health care professionals when addressing children’s oral health.
Resources are currently available for use in a number of settings including paediatric in-patient wards and special education settings.
Other resources
Complications of excess weight (CEW) in children and young people
The CEW e-learning intends to upskill multidisciplinary team (MDT) members working in and with Complications from Excess Weight (CEW) services. It supports MDT members to deliver evidence-based, quality care to children and young people with severe obesity.
Click here to access the Complications of excess weight (CEW) in children and young people programme
How to access
In order to access the Mini Mouth Care Matters programme, you will need an elfh account. If you do not have one, then you can register by selecting the Register button below.
To view the Mini Mouth Care Matters programme, select the View button below. If you already have an account with elfh, you will also be able to login and enrol on the programme from the View button.
Not an NHS organisation?
If you are not an NHS health or care organisation and therefore do not qualify for free access elfh Hub, you may be able to access the service by creating an OpenAthens account.
To check whether or not you qualify for free access via OpenAthens, you can view the eligibility criteria and register on the ‘OpenAthens’ portal.
Registering large numbers of users
If you are a HR, IT or Practice Manager and would like to register and enrol large numbers of staff within your organisation for access onto the Mouth Care Matters programme, please contact elfh directly.
Organisations wishing to use their own LMS
For HR departments wanting to know more about gaining access to courses using an existing Learning Management System please contact elfh directly to express interest.
More information
Please select the following link for more information on how to use the elfh Hub.