The General Dental Council has once again avoided answering questions posed in a Freedom of Information request
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The British Orthodontic Society attracted its largest number of participants yet to the annual British Orthodontic Conference (BOC), at Birmingham’s International Conference Centre.
Dental professionals listening to the new Secretary of State for Health and Social Care’s eagerly promised Statement on how she plans to tackle the mounting failings of the NHS were left feeling bitterly disappointed.
The General Dental Council has made the extraordinary claim that it doesn’t hold information on an investigation it is currently carrying out, into the relationship between registrants undergoing Fitness to Practise investigations and potential suicides.
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As the sun sets on the State Funeral and people returned to their workplaces, schools, clubs and social groups, the small talk was inevitably about how moving the previous 24 hours had been and yes, how brilliant the UK is at executing such events. Nobody, it seems, does it quite like us.
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Recently profiled in GDPUK, the newly appointed Minister for Health and Social Care, Therese Coffey had a ready mnemonic for her first interviews. Her priorities would be ABCD, she said, representing Ambulances, Backlogs, Care, Doctors and Dentists.
‘Check, check and check again,” would be sound advice for many clinical activities. A recent statement from The Dental Defence Union (DDU) suggests that Dentists and DCPs’ should apply the same thoroughness to retaining their GDC registration.
A French dentist has been jailed after being found guilty of carrying out unnecessary work. Sentencing followed a trial that ended in April, relating to huge quantities of work done over a six year period.
Following the British Dental Association’s revelation that 79% of dental practices in England were unable to take on new child patients, the British Society of Paediatric Dentistry has announced the availability of nine multilingual versions of its guide to caring for children’s teeth.