UK • Health
- Sector: Health
- Headquarters Country: UK
- Founding Year: 2011
- Operating Regions: UK
- Employees: 215 people in 38 clinics
- Founders: clinic employees
- Problem Identified: The majority of our patients come to us because they would find it difficult to receive their care from a High Street dentist, perhaps owing to a disability, learning difficulty or behavioural condition, such as dental anxiety.
- Solution Offered: They do this by working with the NHS, businesses, schools, community groups and other organisations to bring the best clinical dental services and oral health information to the people that traditional dental services are often unable to reach. Based in Bedford, they now operate across multiple locations in the UK.
- Social Impact: to make sure everybody, especially vulnerable and marginalised groups, receives the oral healthcare and information they need to thrive.
- Funding: We are an employee owned social enterprise totally owned by our employees and believe that as co-owners all our employees can share in our social mission and influence the business decisions we make. Because we are run in an open way, with employee elected members on our Board, we all have a strong commitment to our shared corporate social responsibility and involvement with the communities we serve.We make our income through delivering dental care and oral health promotion. Our services are predominantly commissioned by either NHS England and Local Authorities to deliver NHS dental care and oral health promotion advice to a wide range of people across a diverse range of communities. We also offer some privately paid for dental treatments and have a growing ‘Dentist at Home’ mobile service where we offer paid for dental care and home visits to people who find it difficult to travel or to visit a High Street dentist.
- Awards: Winner of the 'Health & Social Care Social Enterprise' Award 2017
- Website: https://communitydentalservices.co.uk/about/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/cds_cic?lang=en
- Video: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZHf5Uxblln8jZyiGm9Jk-g
