A Step-by-Step Implementation Guide to Mini Mouth Care Matters

Mini Mouth Care Matters is a national programme that improves oral care for children and young people in hospital and other healthcare settings. This implementation guide was developed in response to requests from medical and nursing colleagues for practical support to embed oral health into everyday care.

The guide takes teams step by step through setting up Mini Mouth Care Matters locally, from securing support and identifying champions to piloting, measuring impact and sustaining change. It includes a traffic-light mouth check, guidance on lifting the lip, and ready-to-use templates in the appendices.

The Mini Mouth Care Matters e-learning is hosted on the NHS Learning Hub. If you are unable to access the Hub directly, please email enquiries@learninghub.nhs.uk, and the team can support access and help embed the e-learning within your local learning platform. For enquiries about Mini Mouth Care Matters outside England, please contact administrator@bspd.co.uk.

Download the Step-by-Step Implementation Guide