• Supporting the development of community-based Māori oral health providers.
• Collaborating with NGOs, PHOs and social services in planning oral health services.
• Promoting linked enrolment between PHOs and child oral health services.
• Increasing the preventive and social context components of training for oral health
professionals.
• Developing training and use of early caries recognition programmes by primary
health care professionals, for example, Lift the Lip.
• Developing policies that support ongoing access to oral health care.
• Developing professionally applied fluoride programmes for high-need groups to be
delivered by primary health care professionals.