Workforce

Dental recruitment: how to build and maintain your workforce

Kunal Thakker explores the tricky topics of recruitment and retention as part of his series on developing a successful squat…

Business

Fixing the dental technology workforce crisis

David Smith discusses the dental technician shortage and how to rebuild a skilled, future-ready workforce. I recently delivered a presentation…

Laboratory

Registered dental therapists up by nearly 25% while technicians decline

The total number of dental professionals registered by the General Dental Council (GDC) has increased according to newly-released statistics. The…

Dentistry

ORE training in Chennai: tackling the workforce crisis

Neil Carmichael details the work of the ADG to improve access and solve workforce problems in the dental profession. The…

Dentistry

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‘No future for NHS dentistry without reform’, report warns

Experts are calling for contract reform to maintain the dental workforce as a new report identified more than 5,500 unfilled…

Dentistry

‘Mind the workforce gap’: ADG warns of 3,000-dentist shortfall

The Association of Dental Groups (ADG) warns of the significant gap in the dental workforce as it awaits the Labour…

Dentistry

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News you’ve missed this week – 18 January 2025

It’s been a busy week in the world of dental news. Missed the headlines? Here’s what’s happened over the past…

Dentistry

What does the data say about dentistry?

Neil Carmichael highlights the importance of gathering robust data for understanding the dental landscape in 2025. When we consider the…

Dentistry

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Dental Leadership Network: addressing the dental workforce crisis

November’s Dental Leadership Network event tackled the problem of building and maintaining the UK’s dental workforce. On 12 November, the…

Dentistry

Solving the workforce crisis: the new government’s hardest task

Nigel Jones explains why the workforce crisis should be the first item on the new government’s dental agenda. As our…

NHS to Private

Building a modern workforce for UK dentistry

Recruitment is at the heart of the dental workforce crisis, argues Neil Carmichael, but what is the solution? UK dentistry…

Dentistry

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Kevin Lewis: A New Hope? Examining the NHS dental recovery plan

We may already be unwilling participants in the latest of a long line of historic workforce miscalculations, Kevin Lewis discovers.…

Dentistry

You’re fired – creating a future workforce

David Smith explains how Yeovil is looking to plug the dental technician skill shortage in south west England. Yeovil has…

Laboratory

Recruitment crisis will drive change in dentistry in 2022

Nigel Jones gives his predictions for dentistry in 2022 and points to the recruitment crisis as the main reason driving…

NHS to Private

Report on UK dental market: percentage of female dentists set to increase

The proportion of female dentists in the profession is set to increase to more than 60%, according to Christie &…

Dentistry