Female dentists and dental care professionals (DCPs) should be well supported through the menopause and perimenopause to ensure that the profession retains passionate and skilled clinicians for as long as possible, according to Dental Protection.
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As the Oral Health Foundation launches the 2022 Mouth Cancer Action Month, cases in the UK have reached an all-time high.
After less than two months on the back benches, Steve Barclay is back as Health Minister. Appointed Secretary of State for Health and Social Care in the dying days of the Johnson administration, and then briefly displaced by Thérèse Coffey, he is now back at Victoria Street.
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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak promised on a televised debate during the initial, and protracted, round of Tory Party leadership hustings, to knuckle down on NHS dental access reform “on day one”.
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The Dental Defence Union has advised dentists to ‘proceed with caution’ if communicating with patients via private messaging apps.
The General Dental Council has decided against carrying out an internal review after GDPUK questioned its decision to decline to answer a Freedom of Information Request on its investigation into the suicide of registrants undergoing Fitness To Practice Investigations.
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