New Child Neglect Policy Launched

With the importance attached to safeguarding, dental teams need to know of a significant update to the available guidance.

With the importance attached to safeguarding, dental teams need to know of a significant update to the available guidance.
Across the UK, NHS dentistry is vanishing, there is a cost of living crunch, and there are service stopping gaps in the dental workforce. If that sounds bleak, it may still miss one of the biggest challenges for those planning dental care in the coming years. A recent report from the University of Colorado provides a timely reminder for those in charge of UK dental public health, that demographic changes are not on their side.
GDPUK has written about the GDC’s project to introduce a new set of standards for registrants. Most recently in GDPUK.com - GDC Working on New Standards for Professionalism we described the first part of one of the series of webinars they are running on the subject.
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Ian Brack, Chief Executive and Registrar of the General Dental Council, is to step down. The move will take effect on November 6th.
It is easy to assume that with the unique system that is the NHS, a chaotic government, and years of relying on imported professionals to make up its workforce, that UK dentistry would be particularly troubled.
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Oscar Wilde’s play, Salome is credited with introducing the idea of a gradual process of unveiling, in this case in a dance. The play has even been proposed as the origin of striptease.
Read more: Questioned on Legal Costs, GDC Carefully Limits Answers