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Cartoon characters raise £400 for dementia care

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Patients may have been surprised to find Tweetie Pie, Sylvester and Bananaman waiting to treat them at the Trafalgar dental clinic in Holbury this month.

 

But it was all in a good cause.

 

The clinic’s dental nurses and receptionists decided to dress up as cartoon characters for a day to raise money for new equipment for people with dementia.

 

The five Trafalgar clinics in Hampshire, which offer not-for-profit NHS dental care on behalf of local PCTs, held a ‘name the teddy bear’ competition and together raised £431. 

 

The money will go towards activity and sports equipment for dementia patients visiting the Fenwick2 Health and Well-being Centre in Lyndhurst.

 

Fenwick2 runs a pioneering early dementia assessment service, where patients and their carers can attend for 12 weeks to obtain support from care services, community nurses, voluntary groups and mental health services for their condition.

 

“We got some funny looks from patients, but it was good fun and well worth it for the amount of money we raised,” said Samantha Smith, Head of Trafalgar Dentistry.  

 

Trafalgar provides NHS dentistry for 47,000 patients in Hampshire. It set a national trend by offering much-needed NHS dentistry in areas where no NHS dentists were available or where there were long waiting lists.

 

It is contracted by NHS Hampshire and Portsmouth and Southampton PCTs to provide NHS dental services and supplements its income by offering dentistry to private patients as well.

 

Both Trafalgar and Fenwick2 are run by social enterprise health and social care provider SCA Group, which reinvests any surpluses it makes into improving services for the community.

The five Trafalgar clinics are in Holbury in the New Forest, Rowner and Brune in Gosport, Woolston in Southampton and Buckland in Portsmouth.

 

Further information is available from SCA Group on 023 8036 6663 or from www.scagroup.co.uk

 

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