Hygienists and therapists raising funds to allow prescribing
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- Published: Wednesday, 31 May 2017 07:54
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The British Society of Dental Therapists (BADT) and the British Society of Dental Hygiene and Therapy (BSDHT) are pursuing ‘exemptions’ to the Medicines Act, which would mean that a list of prescription only medicines would be specified in legislation for dental therapists and dental hygienists to administer or supply. They are running a joint fundraising campaign to raise money to achieve this.
The BSDHT says that being denied the ability to provide Prescription Only Medicines necessary for effective patient treatment is a huge problem ‘which has long held back our profession’. But recent developments may finally mean we can take a huge leap forward and get on with our job. In the future, after necessary training, this means we would be able to provide local anaesthetic and fluoride in our daily practice without a Patient Specific Directive (PSD) or Patient Group Directive (PGD), a huge leap forward for our profession.
The BADT President, Amanda Gallie, said: “BADT and BSDHT are running a joint fundraising campaign to raise money for the prescribing rights project, ’Subscribe to prescribe.’ Unfortunately, the NHS does not have any spare money for development of professional groups. Therefore we are crowd-funding to support two project leads, one hygienist and one therapist to create, research and collate the data set needed to put forward our application. This is a complex process that has to go to public consultation and then to government and the MHRA and this all costs time and money.
The CrowdFunding campaign page can be found here.
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