London Mayor, Sadiq Khan, has made commitments on oral health in the new London Health Inequalities Strategy. The document outlines ambitions to see partners take further action on improving child oral health, including access to dental care, particularly targeted on those communities least likely to be attend a dentist.
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The BDA and BMA have issued a joint call for fundamental reform of the Review Body (DDRB). They state that the DDRB’s role to guarantee the independence of pay awards has been eroded over time, and the current process is no longer acceptable to their professions. GDPs in England still do not have clarity on whether the anticipated 2% uplift will be delivered from 1 October.
School meals should be improved to cut excess sugar and encourage children to eat more fruit and vegetables, leading dentists from the Faculty of Dental Surgery of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons have said. They are calling for a "bolder approach" from the Scottish Government to give young children the healthiest possible start in life.
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The Faculty of General Dental Practice has published the second edition of Standards in Dentistry, for general dental practitioners and their teams which acts as a guide to personal or practice-based quality assessment. Ian Mills, Dean of FGDP(UK), said: “The Faculty’s core function is to raise the standards of care delivered to patients, and the provision of guidance and standards by dentists, for dentists, is central to this.”
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The number of dentists that don’t see themselves working within the NHS in five years’ time has increased by 16% since last year, according to a new survey. The sixth Confidence Monitor survey by Practice Plan has found that 86% of NHS dentists don’t see themselves in the NHS by 2023, compared to 70% who answered the same question in last year’s survey.
Read more: Rise in number of unhappy dentists planning to leave the NHS
Dental Protection has successfully challenged the GDC’s decision where they tried to re-impose a warning on a dentist for a minor road traffic conviction. Helen Kaney, Head of Dental Services (Scotland) at Dental Protection said:“Dental Protection’s success in challenging unjust and procedurally inappropriate decisions made by the GDC Investigating Committees has benefitted its member and the wider profession.”
Read more: Judicial Review overturns GDC warning over minor driving offence