Visitors to the BDIA Dental Showcase at London’s Excel centre had the opportunity to listen to two English Chief Dental Officers. While suitably sponsored former CDO Barry Cockcroft popped up to promote a toothpaste, his successor Sara Hurley was scheduled to deliver a keynote address in the Clinical theatre.
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The spiralling cost pressures on dental practices will ratchet up again on Thursday as free Lateral Flow tests stop being available for routine COVID-19 testing.
Without more financial support, NHS dentistry across the border will ‘Wither on the vine’ according to the British Dental Association Wales.
The BDIA Dental Showcase exhibition marked the return of one of the UK’s largest two day trade shows, last week. The previous event was in 2019, Showcase at the London Excel, it gave dental teams a chance to remind themselves how it feels to meet and network without opening Teams or Zoom.
Conservative MP Sir Paul Beresford (Mole Valley) closed his dental practice to carry out ‘urgent safety improvements’ following a CQC inspection last November that revealed a catalogue of failings and shortcomings Private Eye magazine reports.
Read more: CQC Report Blasts Sir Paul Beresford MP’s Practice
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