£28million extra cash for 120,000 more patients Health Secretary, Andrew Lansley has announced an additional £28 million of funding for dentistry in order to ‘increase the number of people able to access an NHS dentist’. The Department of Health said that 820,000 more people had already been given access since May 2010. The extra funding will, it is claimed, enable an extra 180,000 to be seen bringing ‘the number of extra people now able to access an NHS dentist to one million’. Read More   Bogus dentist given prison sentence A former dental technician who conned elderly patients into paying up to £1,400 for sets of false teeth has been condemned as a charlatan by a judge. Stephen Sickelmore posed as a qualified professional when he visited patients all over Devon and Cornwall and took impressions of their mouths. He conned £200,000 out of unsuspecting clients - money that the court hope to confiscate from him. Read More   John Milne retains GDPC chair John Milne, from Wakefield West Yorkshire threw off a challenge from Eddie Crouch and was re-elected as chair of the BDA’s General Dental Practice Committee. He has held the post for three years and has been closely involved with the Department’s pilots for a new GDP contract. The election is by members of the Committee and the result was Milne 36, Crouch 21. Read More   "Premature" to forecast insufficient training places: Cockcroft The Chief Dental Officer (CDO), Barry Cockcroft has confirmed that it is the Government’s ‘intention’ to see that sufficient DF1 places are funded to match the number of students forecast to graduate from dental schools in England this year. He did however concede that last year 21 UK graduates were left without places . Read More

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