Sebastian Evans

Each business is different in its values and the pressures placed upon it. However, an astute employer will keep its employment documentation up-to-date. The CQC (Care Quality Commission) places considerable emphasis on employee documentation and what it expects to see. Below is a list of evidence you should have available for all team members, as…

Rodericks Limited is delighted to welcome Sue Gregory OBE into its team as a non-executive director. Having worked as the deputy chief dental officer with the Department of Health and taken on various roles within Dental Public Health, Sue has a wide range of skills and experience to offer. Managing director of Rodericks Limited, Shalin…

Two serious events have been recorded at The University of Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, which runs all of the city centre hospitals, including the extraction of the wrong tooth and an operation on the wrong part of a patients hand. The trust said: 'These are serious blunders which should not occur if all proper…

Why did you choose to go on The Island? There were a couple of things that happened in 2013. The first was that the business of which I was a director and one of the co-founders, collapsed. So I found myself in a really interesting situation. The good news is that the new business we’ve…

So the problem with the GDC is… Well we all have our views, but are they heard? And were they heard in the recent online questionnaire sent to us all? It seems to me that it was a done deal, this planned rise in the annual retention fee. Now that really needs to be renamed,…

The UK’s largest congress for GDPs (general dental practitioners) and their teams will return to London this September, taking over Twickenham Stadium for a lecture and hands-on symposium that will take your learning to a higher level. Who says you can’t have quality with quantity? This year WAC is all about choice and class: quality…

The 2012 Office of Fair Trading report into dentistry found the lack of information was an urgent problem for patients and in 2014 many patients still don’t know what their options are when something goes wrong. That advert in the Daily Telegraph was about reaching out and telling patients that the Government, via the GDC (General Dental…

I know I’m an old reactionary, but most would agree the standard of our dental services is on the slide. There’s every indication that a series of poor political decisions at state level are to blame. A lack of real vision Ministerial agendas are always constrained by time. A new health minister will want to…

The new research from Mintel finds that a quarter (25%) of people in the UK are consuming less carbonated soft drinks (CSDs) than they were six months ago – rising to a third (34%) of those aged 16-24. Of those consuming less CSDs in 2014, 50% said they were doing so because they contained too much…

The Windsor Cup – a dental medical charity sailing regatta – starts with social activities all based in Cowes, on the Isle of Wight. Entry is available to all dentists, doctors, and vets and raises funds for the Jubilee Sailing Trust (JST). This wonderful charity helps disabled people experience the inspiration of sailing. The main…

This won’t be the first time that I have used these words in regard to the General Dental Council (GDC) (and sadly, I suspect that it won’t be the last). As a dental professional you would have had to have been living in a cave for the last month or so to have missed the…

The damaged carnassial tooth of a lioness in Ree Park Safari in Ebeltoft (near Aarhus) was restored using the CAD/CAM system Cerec. The Danish zoo wanted to use the benefits of the chairside system that allows treatment in just one session for its animal patient. The veterinary team was faced with a few challenges when…

Dentists who have an NHS contract will have had a letter from Barry Cockcroft in his capacity as chief dental officer (CDO) for NHS England. It introduces the ‘NHS friends and family test’ – a new one on me and I suspect many dentists working in the service. The powers that be intend to make…

Dentistry magazine’s campaign has produced more copy and stronger feeling than our renowned 'stop the new contract' campaign in 2006. It is time for a total reformation of the General Dental Council. Reform demands a section 60 order to change of the Dentists Act 1984. Only this will wrestle back control of fitness to practise…

Lawyers, instructed by the British Dental Association (BDA), have written to the General Dental Council (GDC) pointing to fundamental failings in its consultation over proposed increases to the annual retention fee (ARF). The BDA has challenged the lawfulness of the consultation, which it claims is being run without an official GDC policy and rests on…