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Professor Elizabeth Kay, dean of the Peninsula Dental School and acting dean of the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry, has been awarded Fellowship Ad Eundem of the Faculty of General Dental Practice (UK) (FGDP(UK)) at The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The award of Fellowship is the highest accolade a member of the…
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The General Dental Council (GDC) will be sharing information on registered dental professionals as part of the changes in law regarding the vetting and barring of paedophiles. From July 2010, any dental professionals changing jobs or starting work for the first time will need to register with the Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA), a Home Office-sponsored…
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A scheme providing dental care to people living on the streets of London looks set to go nationwide as England’s chief dental officer gave it the thumbs up. The mobile service, which takes dentistry out and about to those living rough, is being trialled in the capital until May 2010 – and could be rolled…
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Dentists are to be put on the frontline in the battle against Scotland’s burgeoning alcohol crisis. Alcohol misuse is estimated to cost the country an estimated £2.25 billion a year and a research team at Glasgow University’s dental school is now looking at the best ways to reduce this growing financial burden. It could mean…
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Once your website is developed to be fully optimised for search engines (this is the SEO (search engine optimisation), then it is time to start promoting your site. In other words, you now have a website that Google can easily find, but to also get top ranks and increase the number of visitors to the…
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The ninth annual Private Dentistry Awards took place on Friday 6 November at London’s InterContinental Hotel. Guests enjoyed a drinks reception and three-course meal before the ceremony, hosted by judging panel chairman David Houston and Sir Paul Beresford. Dr Houston said: ‘The judging panel would like to commend our entrants for the remarkably high quality…
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BDTA Dental Showcase 2009 attracted more members of the dental team than ever before, with 13,178 visitors attending the event over the three days. Visitors benefited from a range of CPD opportunities this year with lectures delivered by Dr Chris Orr, Dr Martin Trope and representatives from Dental Business Solutions and the FGDP. Daily seminars…
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The Dentistry Awards ceremony is coming… Congratulations once again to all those practices, teams and dentists who have been shortlisted – now there is just a short but tantalising wait to find out who is the winner of each category. The special-guest compere for this year’s ceremony will be comedian Paul Thorne, one of the…
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There are problems that HTM 01-05 will bring when it is put into place – and make no mistake there will come a time, fairly soon, when it will be necessary to comply – the Care Quality Commission will make sure of that. And, as we will all have to be licensed by them to…
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The British Dental Association (BDA) is calling for a full review of the evidence base for the HTM 01-05 guidance document on decontamination in dental surgeries. The BDA has written to the Department of Health renewing its 2007 call for a National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) review of the evidence. It has…
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Just speaking to Nicki Rowlands makes you realise how passionate she is about raising awareness of oral cancer. Perfect 32 dental practice in Beverly, East Yorkshire, has seen the number of cases locally skyrocketing. One of their patients, Jacqui Alland, lost her father to the disease after he underwent intense treatment. Jacqui explains: ‘Dad suffered…
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The inequality between those with good and poor oral health is widening in the UK, according to the British Dental Association (BDA). The BDA’s new Oral Health Inequalities Policy shows that there is an ‘unacceptable and growing chasm’, with many people of low socio-economic status having poor oral health. The organisation has put out the…
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David Tomkins was the lucky winner of the holiday-for-two to the luxurious Caribbean Island of Barbados. The official Showcase prize draw, provided by the BDTA, was designed to link in with the Showcase 2009 ‘Treasures of Dentistry’ theme and was open to everyone who registered in advance for tickets to the event and attended on…
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An anonymous source has told Dentistry that James Hull has been forced to step down as chief executive of James Hull Associates. It’s believed to follow a row with investors over expenses. The insider revealed that the former dentist and entrepreneur stood down from the company that bears his name last week. Last month he…
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I’m back in the UK – and my stint of doing voluntary work for three months in India has come to an unexpected end. On my first day, I decided to take a taxi to Kuruswada in North Goa, the base of Children Walking Tall. It took about 25 minutes from my hotel in Calungute…
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The ‘unnecessarily complex’ contracts for dental access funding make them risky and inappropriate for dental practice, the BDA’s General Dental Practice Committee (GDPC) has said today. The final version of the ‘PDS+’ agreement has been amended by the DH following widespread criticism after an early release in September. The contract – developed for the current…
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The Department of Health has announced it will unveil Mike Warburton’s access template agreement on Monday. The launch – which coincides with one of the biggest trade events on the dental calendar, this weekend’s BDTA Showcase – follows September’s controversy over the first draft contract posted out by some PCTs ahead of schedule as part…
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