McManus and Scott Dental Surgeries

01/11/2023

From today, if you pay for your NHS treatment you may notice an increase in treatment charges. These increases are necessary to ensure that we are able to continue to provide NHS dental services and reflect the increase in the cost of delivering the care required for patients.

All patients will receive a free Dental examination and for those eligible, treatment may be completely free. Our reception staff will be happy to discuss if you are eligible for free dental treatment.

The increased fees are set by NHS Scotland and we have no control over them.

Your dentist will give you a personal estimate of costs for your
course of treatment. For those in that have started a course of treatment before the 1st of November, the costs will not change.

Please visit the website below for updated fees

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25/08/2022

25/08/2022

08/03/2021

‼️‼️‼️IMPORTANT INFO‼️‼️‼️

Due to the installation of a new ventilation system at our Holytown practice, the surgery will be closed from Tuesday 9th March to Friday 12th March. The phone lines will remain open for dental advice for our patients. Severe dental emergencies will be referred to our sister Newarthill practice if necessary.
The new ventilation system will provide more than 10 air changes per surgery per hour. We feel this is yet another mitigating factor to further improve the safety for our patients and staff.
Thank you all in advance for you patience and understanding.

09/02/2021

The roads are treacherous today, especially around the side streets. We are concerned that the forecast is to continue snowing as well. If you do have an emergency that needs urgent treatment today, can you please call as soon as possible as we are intending to close earlier this afternoon to make sure all our staff that have made it into work, can get home safely.

Thanks and stay safe.

Holytown: 01698833088
Newarthill: 01698862727

21/01/2021

Emotional day for the team today as we bid farewell to this wee beaut!! I’ve had the pleasure of calling her ‘my nurse!’ for the last 13 yrs and will miss her immensely. I mean that not only as a wonderful, skilled dental nurse but as a friend and confidant. As I’m sure many of my patients will testify, Erin’s chatty and positive manner has helped take even the most nervous patients minds off having treatment.
We’ll all miss her funny stories and kindness. We do all though, wish her every success and happiness on her next adventure and new career path.

Thank you so much for all your hard work and all you have done not only for Mcmanus and Scott, but for me.

All the best Erin.

Lee-Anne xx
and of course all the rest of team M n S 😜

( ps mask taken off only quickly just for photo purposes!)

05/01/2021

‼️‼️‼️IMPORTANT UPDATE‼️‼️‼️

Both practices are now reopened after the Christmas break.

Following the First Ministers announcement yesterday, we have now had communication from our Chief Dental Officer, who has clarified that healthcare, including dentistry is deemed an essential service, so we CAN remain open and travel to appointments is permitted.

Only purely cosmetic procedures (facial aesthetics, whitening etc) are NOT permitted during this period.

We are working hard today and over the next few days to look at our appointment books and we may unfortunately have to reschedule your appointment to minimise the amount of people in the buildings and the number of contacts between patients. However, unless you hear from us directly, you can assume your appointment will go ahead as planned. We may have to postpone routine check ups for January to free up more space for emergencies.

We have put a lot of work into making sure both practices are as safe as possible for our staff and patients alike and this is true now more than ever. Our cross -infection controls and all the other mitigating factors we have implemented, mean you can rest assured you will be in safe hands.


We also completely understand that many of our patients are anxious about the current situation and some that have returned to shielding won’t feel comfortable coming out at the moment. If this applies to you or a family member and you have an appointment made in the coming weeks you wish to reschedule, just give our receptionists a call and they will be happy to postpone or remake this for you ☎️📞.

This setback will unfortunately affect the ability for us to make a dent in the backlog of patients still awaiting outstanding treatment and we are sorry for the inconvenience this will cause. We will of course be doing all that we can. As before we will still be here to see you for any emergencies or other concerns, so please don’t hesitate to call us if you need any assistance with any dental issues.

At this time the surgery doors will remain locked 🔒 and only persons with an appointment will be allowed in the building, so please don’t turn up with-out one. Please wear a face covering 😷, arrive on time, and where possible wait in your car and let us know you are here 📱. On entry, please use our hand sanitizer and await instructions from our staff, who are there to keep you as safe as possible. As always, anyone who has any of the symptoms of COVID-19, is awaiting a test result or who has been asked to self- isolate should NOT attend the practice at present.



This certainly isn’t the New Year’s message we were hoping to post, but with the vaccination programme underway, we hope that things will start to look better again soon and we truly hope to get back to some sort of ‘normality’ by spring 🤞🏼🤞🏼.

Best wishes and stay safe

Lee-Anne, Jim and team McManus and Scott.

04/01/2021

In light of the First Ministers announcement today, we are still awaiting clarification on what this means for us from our Cheif Dental Officer. We will update you on here as soon as we hear anything.

Thanks so much for your patience in the mean time.

All the team at McManus and Scott

22/12/2020

Please take note of our opening hours over the holiday period. We are open (with only one dentist in each practice) to see emergency patients only) between Christmas and New Year. This is to allow our hard working dentists, dental assistants and admin staff a week earned rest with their families.

If you have a dental emergency on these days, please call as early as possible, as the appointments will only be allocated on the day.

For any emergencies out with these days please call NHS 24 on 111 and they will assist you.

Thursday 24th Dec: 9am-3pm

Friday 25th Dec: Closed
Boxing Day: Closed
Monday 28th Dec: Closed

Tuesday 29th Dec: open 9am-5pm ( Emergency appointments only)by telephone arrangement

Wednesday 30th Dec: 9am-5pm : ( Emergency appointments only by telephone arrangement

Thursday 31st Dec 9am-3pm : ( Emergency appointments only ) by telephone arrangement

Friday 1st Jan 2021: closed
Monday 4th Jan 2021: closed

Tuesday 5th Jan 2021: 9am-5pm

Please only use these emergency 🚨 🆘 appointments if you really need them 🤞🏼

Holytown: 01698 833088
Newarthill: 01698 862727

Have wonderful, safe and happy Christmas from all of us here at McManus snd Scott.
🎅🏻🎉🎊🥳

16/12/2020

Always cheers us up to get such a lovely review. Thanks very much Kieran, we look forward to welcoming you back ☺️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🥳

02/11/2020

‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️IMPORTANT UPDATE ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️



As some of you may have seen on the news the Scottish Government has announced the return of routine NHS dental treatments in community Dental Practices from today. We are pleased that we can now offer more NHS services to our loyal and lovely patients, it really does feel a step closer to normality( whatever that may be!!). We do however feel the need to explain that it is not, by any manner of means, ‘ business as usual’. There are severe limitations on how we provide NHS dental treatment, as those of you who have visited the practice since June will have seen. The effect of this is that we can only see a small handful of patients a day, we estimate this is approximately 20% of our usual capacity pre lockdown across both practices



As such, we must prioritise treatment for the people who had palliative urgent treatment during lockdown and those that had unfinished treatment ( especially those with active dental decay/ periodontal disease) at the start of the pandemic. We will be going through our files over the next few weeks to identify and contact those of who who fall into these categories. There will be limited scope for routine check- ups, but we hope to increase that in the coming months.



We will of course continue to provide emergency and urgent dental care for all our registered patients and you should contact the surgery by telephone if you have any dental problems.



Over the last few months we have continued to provide a full range of dental treatment on an independent basis and will continue to do this as each of our dentists will have time dedicated to private treatments. So,if you wish to have any tooth whitening, tooth coloured fillings, crowns or bridges, composite bonding, dental implants or flexible or cosmetic dentures, air polishing- please don’t hesitate to contact our receptionist and we will get you an appointment.



This has been an extremely difficult time for everyone, but we are still here. We will endeavour to help those who need our help the most and will get there for the rest of you, albeit a bit longer than you are used to having to wait to see us. We thank you for your patience, your loyalty and your continued support.



Stay safe and remember to floss your 🦷😊



Lee-Anne, Jim and all the team and McManus and Scott.



Please see letter from our chief of dentistry Mrs Anne Moore

22/10/2020

Today we had the absolute privilege to share a very special birthday with a very special person. Our lovely (Holytown)practice manageress Lorraine. We enjoyed some socially distanced cupcakes and juice at lunch 🧁🧃😁. Happy birthday lovely lady!! ###

17/08/2020

‼️‼️‼️IMPORTANT UPDATE‼️‼️‼️

Good Afternoon everyone albeit a wet one 🌧!! As you may have heard on the news, as of today NHS dental practices are now allowed to provide some limited AGPS (treatment that produces an aerosol) again using enhanced PPE and under strict protocols. The article below explains this and has quotes from our clinical director Laura Milby. Unfortunately, these are only for urgent dental care and only when absolutely necessary. This means that we will be able to see our patients in practice for these instead of referring to the hubs in Coatbridge. We are still limited in the number of patients we can see due to social distancing.

We understand how frustrating it is for many of our patients that are awaiting routine treatment 😤 as we don't foresee that this will be allowed under NHS provision until at least phase 4😔. Due to this we have spent a lot of time working on and testing new operating procedures, purchasing our own enhanced PPE, staff training etc. We are content that we can now safely offer AGPs, such as fillings, root canal treatments, crown and bridgework again independently of the NHS. We believe our patients should have access to these services, if they choose to do so. Therefore if you attend for a check up just now, or know you have outstanding treatment you wish to finish, you will be offered the choice to do so on a private basis. This is of course not compulsory and there is no obligation whatsoever to do so, we are just making this option available.

We will only be able to treat 10 patients per day in each of the practices so availability may be in demand. To be clear, we are not 'going private' and patients that choose to wait till we are allowed to offer these services on the NHS again, can absolutely do so.

Thank you all for your understanding and kindness throughout these difficult months 🙏🏻. We are taking steps, albeit baby steps 👣 back to some kind of normality, we will get there. If you have any questions or queries please don't hesitate to get in contact with us.

☎️📞
Holytown 01698 833 088
Newarthill 01698 862 727
or
email us on

info@mcmanusandscott.com

Take care and stay safe

Lee-Anne and Jim
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/note-caution-lanarkshires-dental-practices-22516033

Since June 22,2020, dentists have be able to see patients for some limited routine care.

13/07/2020

‼️‼️‼️IMPORTANT UPDATE‼️‼️‼️‼️

The First Minister for Scotland has announced that we have now entered Phase 3 of the route map out of Coronavirus lockdown. This means that in addition to seeing patients who need urgent dental care, the NHS now allows us to see patients for routine dental care but excluding any AGPs (Aerosol Generating Procedures). An AGP is a procedure that creates an aerosol and includes anything where we would use the drill (high or slow speed handpieces) or ultrasonic scaling.

We are now allowed to have more than one Dentist working at the same time but are still limited in the number of patients we are allowed to see. We are able to see patients for non-AGPs such as check-ups, hand scaling, X-Rays, diet and hygiene advice and denture problems in addition to urgent care such as management of swelling of gums or face, dental abscess, bleeding from an extraction socket, trauma, treatment of infected socket, toothache, broken teeth, loose teeth, loose crowns or bridges. We can also see patients for some types of treatment which can only be provided on an independent or private basis such as tooth whitening, Invisalign and C-fast Orthodontics, wrinkle reducing injections, fillers, mouthguards and splints.

As you may have seen in the papers today and at the First Minister’s press briefing, dentistry is very topical! The biggest issue being that private dentists have been given the green light to carry out AGPs ( with the correct PPE and policies ) but that NHS / mixed dentists have not. We are working alongside the Dental Practice Owners group to try fight this inequality, so that all our patients can again get access to the full range of dental care they deserve.

For now, we are still operating a closed-door policy so if you need urgent care or wish to be seen for a any of the above named treatments, please contact us by telephone and we will do our best to get you an appointment as soon as possible. Entry to the building is strictly by appointment only and we abide to social distancing measures. It’s another step towards being able to provide a full range of services in future as we emerge from lockdown. Our staff and Dentists have been working hard and have done very well providing urgent dental care over the past 3 weeks during phase 2 and we thank them for that.

We also appreciate you, the patients, for your understanding and patience during this difficult time. There is nothing we would like better than to be back to normal but we must adhere to Scottish Government guidelines

Jim and Lee-Anne.

https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/scotland-faces-dental-health-disaster-nhs-practices-stuck-lockdown-2911517

Covid-19 disarray threatens a dental health ‘disaster’.

18/06/2020

‼️‼️‼️IMPORTANT INFORMATION ‼️‼️

As you may have seen or heard The First Minister for Scotland has announced that we have entered Phase 2 of the route map out of Coronavirus lockdown. This means Dental Surgeries can re-open from Monday 22 June 2020 to see patients who need URGENT dental care.

We are limited to only one Dentist working in each practice at a time ( we usually have 5 at Holytown and 3 at Newarthill!!) and we are allowed to see only ten patients per day 😢. We are also not allowed to carry out any procedures that create a water spray, so nothing that requires a drill. So unfortunately at this time no:

❌Scalings
❌Fillings
❌Crowns/ bridges
❌Root canal treatments
❌inlays/onlays

Also no non-urgent care treatments such as;

❌routine examinations
❌facial aesthetics
❌teeth whitening.

However we can now see our registered patients in
practice to treat:

✅swellings of the face or gums
✅dental abscesses
✅trauma
✅treatment of infected sockets
✅extractions
✅broken teeth to temporise them
✅loose teeth
✅loose crowns
✅examine lesions or ulcers that have been there for over a week.

Please understand that the service we normally provide is not available just now. We understand that this is very frustrating for some of you who assumed we may be able to go back to finishing treatment plans etc. We are all just as frustrated as you are about this, but please remember these restrictions have been made by the Scottish Government and not by us. Can we respectfully ask that you please don’t take these frustrations out on our lovely reception staff or dentists. They are only following the rules and doing their job.

We are still operating a closed-door policy ⛔️ so if you need urgent care you must contact us by telephone ☎️ and you will be triaged. Priority will be given to the most urgent needs. If an appointment gets made, they will talk you through the process of coming into the practice as it’s not going to be the same as before for a while 😕.

This is at least a step towards us being able to provide a full range of services in the ( hopefully near 🤞🏼) future as we emerge from lockdown🔒.

We would like to take the opportunity to thank all of our staff (especially our Practice Managers Lorraine and Amanda) and our Dentists who have been on call for our patients, working in the local care hubs and assisting the wider NHS over the last 3 months. We also appreciate you, our patients, for your understanding while we have had to remain closed. Thank you 😊

Lee-Anne and Jim.

05/06/2020

‼️‼️‼️UPDATE‼️‼️‼️

As you may have seen in the press some English Dental practices may re open from Monday. Unfortunately, this is not the case in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 quite yet.

We have not been given a date yet by Scottish Government, but when we do we will update you all. We are working really hard behind the scenes to get everything ready for welcoming you back. You’ll notice a few changes when you’re allowed back through the doors, I’ve posted some pics below to show some of them and there will be more. This coming week we will also be carrying out staff training ( socially distantly of course!) at the practices, so all our wonderful staff are up to speed on the new rules and guidelines. As much as we’re all very well versed on cross infection control (we were wearing PPE before it even became cool 😉😷), there’s a lot of new things for us to practice and make perfect before we open up.

It’ll be sometime I’m afraid, before we’re back to ‘normal’ pre Covid treatments. When we enter phase 2 we expect we will be be allowed to see our own patients to deal with URGENT care that doesn’t create an aerosol ( anything that creates a spray ). So, we can do extractions, prescriptions, simple dressings etc but not fillings or anything that requires a drill or water spray. The Urgent Care Hubs will remain open to see aerosol procedures if necessary.

We completely understand this is frustrating for you, especially those who were in midst treatment before lockdown began and haven’t been able to complete it. When we are allowed to do so we promise we’ll be in touch and get all your treatments finished. Until then please bare with us 🙏🏻 🦷.

As since the start of lockdown 🔒 our phone 📞 lines are still open Monday to Friday 9am to 1pm then 2-6 pm. We can provide advice and organise a referral if it’s deemed necessary.

Over the weekend if you have a dental emergency, please call NHS 24 on 111

Thanks very much and enjoy your weekend 😊

Lee-Anne , Jim and team McManus and Scott.

14/05/2020

👋HELLO ALL OUR LOVELY PATIENTS 👋

Unfortunately we still don't have any updates yet about when or how we are able to reopen for face to face treatment.

We are working hard behind the scenes to make sure we can do everything to ensure that when we can reopen we will do so in a way that is safe, efficient and work best for our staff and patients.

There's no doubt that there will be many changes but at Mc Manus and Scott we have always worked hard to ensure that our environment is as safe as possible for everyone.

♥️We want to thank everyone for their patience, and promise we will do our very best to get everyone sorted as soon as we possibly can.
We will keep everyone up to date with news as soon as we have clear plans. We are awaiting information from our Chief Dental Officer on when and how we can open our doors to our patients. However, we do predict this may not be for some weeks 😢.

If you’re passing you may see more activity going on as we are using this time to spring clean every clinical and non clinical area. We’re also making modifications like screens at reception, clear markings on the floors to help people maintain social distancing and hands free sanitizers at the front doors, to name but a few. We are also at our Holytown practice using this time to spruce up the gardens and you may even notice a change in colour of the big ‘brown’ door.....watch this space!!

We are all as frustrated as you guys at not being able to treat you face to face, but rest assured as soon as we can, we will. Can we also ask that you please don’t come to the surgery at this time to ask re appointment scheduling etc, as at this time we can’t let anyone other than staff in the building.

Please remember though you can call us 📞. We are still open Monday to Friday 9am to 6pm for telephone advice and referral for severe emergencies ☎️☎️. We will start calling all our patient’s that were mid treatment or due to be seen when we have a date we can reopen.

Thank you again so much for your patience and stay safe.

Lee-Anne , Jim and team McManus & Scott 😊

21/04/2020

We would like to share some good news with you all for a change ! Welcome to the world baby Jack 💙😍! The newest addition to team McManus and Scott! Congratulations to our lovely nurse / receptionist Siobhan and her partner Stewart. Weighing in at 7lb 13oz on the 9.4.20. A beautiful younger brother for wee Stewart. Delighted for them and we all can’t wait for a cuddle when this is all over. 💙🍼👶🎉xx