The American Dental Association (ADA) president has appointed a task force for dental practice recovery after COVID-19 pandemic. The group includes practising dentists with support from ADA experts. He said: “While we guide dentistry through these trying times, the American Dental Association also has its eye on what will come next."
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NASDAL (National Association of Specialist Dental Accountants and Lawyers) has felt that it would be useful for everyone in the profession to know where we are now from a financial perpsective, what we should have done already and what we should now be doing. The advice covers local council grants, self-employed support, actions NHS has taken, private and mixed practice, associates and furloughing.
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The British Orthodontic Society (BOS) has just released legal guidance to assist its practice owning members, and those in the wider dental community, with the legal issues arising from the Covid-19 pandemic. BOS Director of External Relations, Peter McCallum commented, “We feel sure that this document will be useful to our members and the wider dental community as well.”
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Dental nurse, Joanne Gauntlett, was found guilty at a GDC tribunal of four misconduct breaches, having verbally abused staff at Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth. She left staff in tears and scared to go to work including one she told ’social services will pick their child up from school’.
Read more: GDC suspends dental nurse manager for verbally abusing staff
The NHS has published COVID-19 guidance and standard operating procedures for urgent dental care systems in the context of coronavirus. It covers how arrangemnts for urgent care will operate in the current circumstances. The guidance is applicable to the delay phase of COVID-19 pandemic management.
Read more: COVID-19: Update: NHS publishes guidance for urgent dental care systems
In reply to a written question in the House of Lords, the Government has said the current guidance does not extend business rates relief to properties providing medical services, including dental practices, which have not been required to close to prevent the spread of the coronavirus and that there were no plans to amend this guidance further.
Read more: Government gives ‘clarification’ on business rates