The first dedicated online service in the UK delivering toothbrushes and other oral hygiene products to the doorstep, will be launched by a Welsh start-up company. Online venture Brushbox is the brainchild of Mike Donovan and aims to become the world's leading online brand for personal oral care products.
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The Times has reported that dental care pioneer, Stan Brock, wants to bring dental mega-clinics to Britain. Over the past 30 years he has set up hundreds of massive temporary clinics across America, bringing dentists and eye doctors to the country’s poorest people. Now this former cowboy hopes to bring his army of volunteer medics to Britain, a region he believes is in urgent need.
But what would CQC say?
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GDPUK launched its new interactive web based magazine this week. We are proud to announce this to the UK dental community, and new way to transmit the written word in an easy to navigate format.
http://magazine.gdpuk.com/
Public Health England has confirmed that honoraria will be available to all dental practices who agree to host its fieldwork teams for the 2017/18 Oral Health Survey of Adults attending General Dental Practices. Patients in participating practices attending for an appointment with their dentist will be asked to fill in a questionnaire and have a brief examination of their teeth by a visiting dentist from the survey team.
Read more: Small fee offered for practices helping in survey
According to a report in the Mirror dentists in Jeremy Hunt’s constituency are ‘refusing to take new NHS patients’, with three areas in South West Surrey practices being shut to new patients. The BDA blamed years of ‘cuts on the sly’. GDPC chairman Henrik Overgaard-Nielsen told the paper: “The Government is dragging its heels over reform of a system that funds care for half the population.”
Read more: Dental access problems reach Jeremy Hunt’s constituency
Thirteen dentists are being recognised in this year’s round of BDA Honours and Awards, for their outstanding contributions to the profession and to the Association. Amongst them is the first ever winner of the new Joy Harrild Award for Young Dentists. Mick Armstrong, BDA Chair said: “We are delighted to announce these thirteen exemplary individuals as our 2017 honours and awards recipients.”