Mick Armstrong to chair BDA PEC
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- Published: Wednesday, 19 March 2014 23:48
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Dr Mick Armstrong has been elected to serve as new Chair of the British Dental Association’s (BDA’s) Principal Executive Committee (PEC). Dr Armstrong said: “I look forward to leading the profession as it attempts to navigate the minefield of complexity it is confronting.”
Dr Armstrong is a general dental practitioner in a mostly-NHS practice in Castleford, West Yorkshire. He has been a member of the PEC since its inception in July 2012, having been elected to its membership by BDA members across Yorkshire and the Humber. He graduated from Newcastle Dental School in 1985. He has served on the BDA’s Representative Body and General Dental Practice Committee, and was Chair of the Conference of Local Dental Committees in 2011.
Dr Armstrong said: “I am honoured to be elected to serve the profession as Chair of the BDA’s Principal Executive Committee and look forward to leading the profession as it attempts to navigate the minefield of complexity it is confronting. Dentistry in the UK is facing a complicated and evolving set of challenges. We are increasingly underfunded, but over-regulated. High standards are expected of the care we provide to our patients, but often the treatment we receive from those that fund and oversee us leaves a great deal to be desired. All too often the professionalism of dentists and their ability to put patients first is challenged, rather than supported. We must assert our professionalism as the guiding force by which decisions about dentistry should be made and I will lead practitioners in doing exactly that.”
Dr Armstrong will give his first address as the leader of the profession at the forthcoming 2014 British Dental Conference and Exhibition, which takes place in Manchester from 10–12 April.
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