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It’s been a busy few months in the BADN office – our National Dental Nursing Conference in Cheltenham last month, Showcase in Birmingham this month and now we are nearly at Christmas! Plus, we’ve had a few personnel changes. The National Dental Nursing Conference was a huge success with a record number of delegates attending.…
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We know that money is tight at the moment. Chances are that you, like your peers, have been forced to cut back on your spending. Keeping your professional knowledge and skills up-to-date shouldn’t be a casualty of cost cutting and with our new price drop it doesn’t have to be. Now you can get a…
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A new mobile phone application that helps people to keep track of their drinking during the festive period was launched today by Public Health Minister Gillian Merron. To coincide with the start of the Christmas period, the Department of Health has released the first official alcohol tracker application for mobile phones. Available from iTunes and…
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Dentist Alison Lockyer has been elected as the new chair of the council of the General Dental Council (GDC). And for the first time, its make-up evenly reflects the people that provide and receive dental care, with 12 professional members and 12 lay members. Hustings were held this morning (Tuesday) for all three candidates at…
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A dental surgery has been inundated with phone calls – from a phone sex line. Phones are ringing off the hook at the Florida dental practice – up to 500 a day – but it’s not from potential patients, it’s a recording of a phone sex line. Dentist Dr Robert Thousand feels as if he’s…
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Dentists will face being publicly scrutinised by patients with the launch of a new website service in January 2010. The website – www.iWantGreatCare.org – is encouraging patients to post their experiences about their dentist – good or bad – and rate them in the same way people do sellers at consumer websites Amazon.co.uk and eBay.…
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Investments in NHS dental care in two areas of England look set to boost access. Reports of an extra £2.8 million in NHS Norfolk dental services from next year and the opening of a new practice in Hampshire will big replied to patients in need. Six areas in Norfolk have been identified for an increase…
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It is only human nature that our attention is drawn to certain things – rightly or wrongly – in preference to others. Sometimes our attention is being actively solicited (marketeers do it all the time), sometimes it is driven by our own interests and priorities, but, either way, important matters can get lost or overlooked…
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Sometimes we have to do things in life that we do not want or like to do, but just need to be done. Giving the dreaded ID block (inferior alveolar nerve block, IAN) is one such thing! There is not one dentist I have ever met that actually enjoys giving them. Most local anaesthesia ‘failures’…
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Dental access figures out this week show that the number of patients visiting NHS dentists in England has still not recovered to pre-2006 contract levels. In April 2006, 55.8% of the English population was seen on the NHS in the previous 24 months. Following the introduction of new terms of service on 1 April, this…
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Elizabeth Davenport, Alison Lockyer and Derek Prentice will stand in the election to become the next chair of the council of the General Dental Council (GDC). Hustings for the three candidates will be held on Tuesday 1 December in the Council Chamber, at the General Dental Council, 37 Wimpole Street, London W1G 8DQ. An election…
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New Zealand Prime Minister John Key gave dental manufacturer Triodent his seal of approval at an unveiling ceremony last month to launch the company’s major expansion project. Mr Key had been invited to open the Triodent Innovation Centre, the first stage of the company’s plan to build a new headquarters in Katikati, New Zealand, about…
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The Peterborough Dental Access Centre was last night named as the third winner of the British Dental Association (BDA) Good Practice Scheme Practice of the Year Award. The award, open to all members of the BDA Good Practice Scheme, recognises outstanding commitment to patient care by the whole dental team. The winning team was applauded for…
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A retired dentist who became the oldest Briton to emigrate when he moved to New Zealand two years ago at the age of 102 has died. Eric King-Turner sailed to the other side of the world with his Kiwi wife, Doris, saying he was tired of England’s weather. He died earlier this month after a…
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A £6 million refurbishment of Liverpool’s dental hospital has opened, making it ‘word class’ according to health secretary Andy Burnham. The MP officially opened the hospital on Monday (23 November) following the milti-million investment to improve dental education and services. The Liverpool University Dental Hospital is run by the Trust and the University of Liverpool…
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