Dental Protection announces Premier Awards winners

This yearâ€™s Premier Symposium, organised by Dental Protection and SchÃ¼lke,, was the setting for the announcement of the winners of the Premier Awards 2010. This annual risk management competition has a total prize fund of Â£6,000 and accepts entries from projects which recognise the importance of patient safety.

Trevor Burke, Chair of Dental Protection, who presented the awards took time to encourage dentists and DCPs from all regions of the UK to participate again next year.

This year’s winners were

Undergraduate prize

Joint 1st Prize - Sarah McKernon, Liverpool Dental School

A clinical audit of undergraduate record keeping.

Joint 1st prize – Rosemary Cunning, Catherine Renfrew and Rhoda Kirkland, Glasgow Dental School

Healthcare Improvement Project based in Glasgow Dental Hospital and School Focusing on Hand Hygiene.

Postgraduate prize

1st Prize – Geoff Chiu, Manchester Dental School, 1997

The Surgical Operation Note Database: Improving the Accuracy and Quality of Operation Note-keeping and Facilitating Payment by Results

2nd prize – Linda Sun Liu, Manchester Dental School, 2008

An audit to assess the quality of radiographs

DCP prize

1st prize – Sarah Holslag, Hygienist

Informed Consent. Have you got it?

2nd prize – Hayley Lawrence, Hygienist

Risk assessment for medical emergencies in dental practice.

Kevin Lewis, Dental Director of Dental Protection said, “The entries for this year’s Awards have once again exceeded our expectations, with so many different projects being submitted by a wide variety of dental professionals. The Awards focus on raising the awareness and management of risks within the practice, and we are delighted that so many of this year’s entries were so relevant to many of the hot topics in UK dentistry.”

The Premier Symposium featured lectures from Professor Richard Palmer, Professor Tara Renton, Paul Jenkins, Dr. Paul Redmond and Dr. Peter Briggs.