Welcome to the Stay Smiling e-learning programme.
This programme has been designed to provide oral health training and empower and support care teams in delivering mouthcare, so that care home residents can Stay Smiling for longer.
The journey to develop Stay Smiling began in 2019 when interviews undertaken with care home teams highlighted the challenges carers face in delivering mouthcare and a lack of widely available suitable oral health training. In response, a joint working group was set up, led by King’s College London’s Dr Rakhee Patel in partnership with care home teams, academics, public health and NHS clinical experts, to coproduce evidence-informed, easy-to-access, free e-learning mouthcare training for carers and care teams.
Stay Smiling is informed by NIHR-funded research (FInCH Trial) and underpinned and driven by King’s College London’s Civic Charter.