CQC Quietly Changes Gear
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- Published: Friday, 23 December 2022 10:39
- Written by Peter Ingle
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The CQC have announced a delay in the introduction of their new single assessment framework.
1 comments 1 commentsArticaine Doubts Remain Despite Safety Evidence
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- Published: Wednesday, 21 December 2022 09:42
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When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 one of the first things that East German dentists wanted to get from their colleagues in the West was the local anaesthetic, Articaine.
NHS Dentistry To Get Select Committee Treatment
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- Published: Tuesday, 20 December 2022 07:43
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The Health and Social Care Committee has announced an inquiry into dentistry.
The cross-party Committee is appointed by the House of Commons to examine the policy, administration and expenditure of the Department of Health and Social Care.
Did You Think Covid SOPs Were Excessive? Perhaps You Were Right!
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- Published: Monday, 19 December 2022 08:43
- Written by Guy Tuggle
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Fallow time. Face masks for all. Patients locked out, queuing in the cold. Interminable screening questions. Donning and Doffing (with allocated zones and ‘how to’ posters on the wall). FFP3. Telephone triaging. Aerosol procedures…
Read more: Did You Think Covid SOPs Were Excessive? Perhaps You Were Right!
Changes At BDA Board: Returning Director Pips A Future Leader
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- Published: Friday, 16 December 2022 10:09
- Written by Guy Tuggle
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Unusually, but in common with some organisations including the British Medical Association, the BDA is both a company and a trade union.
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WHO Report Reveals 2.5 Billion People Have Untreated Caries
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- Published: Thursday, 15 December 2022 07:33
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On 18th November 2022 the World Health Organisation (WHO) published its first Global Oral Health Status Report for twenty years. The key takeaways make for disturbing reading.
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When is the GDC not the GDC? When it calls itself the Dental Leadership Network
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- Published: Wednesday, 14 December 2022 07:53
- Written by Peter Ingle
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Weary registrants may not have had time to read all of the recent “Latest Updates from the GDC” email, that landed in their in-boxes recently. There is a lot of content, including a report on a meeting of “a new Dental Leadership Network.”
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Associate Agreements: Does Yours Need An Urgent Check-Up?
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- Published: Tuesday, 13 December 2022 07:35
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The vexed question of the status of associates has returned to the spotlight as the British Dental Association (BDA) has unveiled new associate agreements that acknowledge the existence of three tiers of employment status operating in the UK.
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Access Crisis: Not Only A British Problem
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- Published: Monday, 12 December 2022 09:59
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With constant news coverage of the UK’s dental access crisis it would be easy to conclude that this is a particularly British problem. Dentaid, the charity that began by providing assistance in Ukraine and Malawi, now runs programmes in Britain. But it appears that Brexit, the NHS and austerity are not essential requirements for a developed nation to have serious problems with dental services.
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