Following last week’s General Election, the Prime Minister has announced a new Government team. The main changes involve filling posts left vacant by Lib-Dem MPs. Jeremy Hunt MP for South West Surrey continues as Secretary of State for Health although Lord Howe has left the team.

The initial published announcement from DH included Lord Howe as a Minister, but this was changed during the day on 13th May.

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The FGDP (UK) has launched its Open Standards Initiative, which offers all dental professionals access to the highly regarded standards and guidance documents produced by them whether they are members of the Faculty or not. The Dean, Trevor Ferguson, said: “We want our standards and guidance documents to reach the widest possible audience for the benefit of the profession and the patients we treat.”

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The British Dental Association’s (BDA) Mick Armstrong has issued a rallying cry to dentists to throw off the image of “the quiet profession” and rise to the challenge in the next parliament. The Chair of the Principal Executive Committee used his address to BDA Conference in Manchester to outline key strategic priorities for the BDA, including a focus on dental regulation, contracts and workforce morale.

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Professor Nairn Wilson CBE has been inaugurated as the British Dental Association’s (BDA’s) 129^th 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.”

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