Professor Nairn Wilson CBE has been inaugurated as the British Dental Association’s (BDA’s) 129th President in a ceremony on the opening day of the Association’s annual conference in Manchester. Commenting on his inauguration Professor Wilson said: “In accepting the office of President of the Association, I dedicate myself to serve the Association to the best of my ability.”
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In a session held at the British Dental Association conference in Manchester three of the authors of the 2009 Steele Review of NHS Dentistry examined the progress of contract reform over the past six years. Professor Steele said: “The development of viable prototypes is now a very important step. It is fair to say that the type B prototypes, where disease prevention and management are grouped together under capitation, are probably closest to the approach that we had envisaged.”
Read more: Type B prototypes closest to Jimmy Steele’s vision
Dental practice-owners may need to draw on their powers of compromise in order to comply with the new rules on Shared Parental Leave (‘SPL’), says NASDAL. This allows parents to share up to 50 weeks’ leave in their child’s first year. The new rules apply to parents whose child is due to be born on or after 5 April 2015, allowing parents to share up to 50 weeks’ leave between them in a single continuous period or discontinuous, returning to work between periods of leave, before their child’s first birthday.
Read more: New rules allow new parents to spread out their leave says NASDAL
Several dentists are standing for election to Parliament in the General Election today. GDPUK wishes them all luck.
Sir Paul Beresford, well known as a dentist and Conservative MP, has a safe seat in Mole Valley. Three other dental colleagues are standing too.
In an interview with Fiona Sandom, president of the British Association of Dental Therapists (BADT), the former CDO, Barry Cockcroft said that many dentists tend to overestimate the public’s concern about receiving their oral health care from other members of the dental team. He also said that any reluctance by patients to receive treatment from a dental hygienist or dental therapist instead of a dentist would be ‘unusual’.
NHS England has announced the appointment of Sara Hurley BDS MFGDP(UK) MSc MA as Chief Dental Officer. She joins NHS England from the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine where she has worked hand in hand with the NHS. Concurrent with her Royal Centre for Defence Medicine responsibilities, Sara has been the Chief Dental Officer for the Army.