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GDC wants to hear your views on Case Examiners

Details: Published: Wednesday, 03 February 2016 07:36; Written by News Editor; Hits: 3866

The General Dental Council (GDC) is consulting on its plans to introduce Case Examiners, to speed the Fitness to practise process. Complaints will be dealt with, they say, more quickly and efficiently making it safer for patients and a less stressful experience for dentists or dental care professionals. Case Examiners will agree undertakings with dentists where this is proportionate. The consultation is now open and will run until March 14.

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Case examiners to start at GDC

Details: Published: Wednesday, 03 February 2016 07:36; Written by News Editor; Hits: 2868

Following debates in both Houses of Parliament the Order permitting the GDC to appoint case examiners has been passed into law and will become effective later this year. The GDC ‘welcomed’ the Lords debate, where they were slated by Lord Hunt, and said that consultation on implementing the Order would start on Feb 1.

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BDA Museum appoints new Honorary Curator

Details: Published: Tuesday, 02 February 2016 12:05; Written by News Editor; Hits: 1806

Dr Margaret Wilson, (not pictured) the current editor of Dental Historian and a dental clinician and academic for nearly 40 years, has been named the new Honorary Curator of the British Dental Association (BDA) Museum. Dr Wilson was appointed following the retirement of Professor Stanley Gelbier, who had held the position since 1989. A former Honorary Curator of the Dental Hospital Museum in Manchester, she is currently editor of the Dental Historian journal for the Lindsay Society and President of her BDA Branch.

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Record visitors for GDPUK site

Details: Published: Monday, 01 February 2016 21:43; Written by News Editor; Hits: 3520

Dental website, for UK dentists and their teams, GDPUK.com had a record month in January 2016 with 44,492 unique visitors who made 153,880 visits to the site. This surpassed GDPUK's previous record of 39,304 uniques and 139k total visitors in December 2014.

During January, GDPUK's Twitter followers also reached a significant milestone, passing 5,000. Follow us @GDPUKcom

GDPUK forum also hit new milestones during rainy January, see below, when the Forum went past 20,000 topics created.

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PM challenged over lack of dentists in Bradford

Details: Published: Monday, 01 February 2016 07:36; Written by News Editor; Hits: 2533

Access to NHS dentists was raised by Bradford South MP, Judith Cummins, at Prime Minister's Questions. She asked the Prime Minister to look at the lack of availability of NHS dentists there ‘as a matter of urgency’. Mr Cameron replied that there had been a ‘big increase’ in NHS dentistry since 2010 and reminded Labour about ‘huge queues around the block’ for an NHS dentist when Labour was in government.

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BDA calls for smoking cessation funding to be ring fenced

Details: Published: Thursday, 28 January 2016 07:42; Written by News Editor; Hits: 2839

The BDA says it is dismayed to learn that around 40 per cent of local councils have dropped their free stop-smoking services when incidences of mouth cancers are soaring. The chair of the BDA’s Health and Science Committee, Russ Ladwa, said: “Investing in stop-smoking services ought to be a mandatory rather than an optional service given the high prevalence of oral cancers and their poor mortality rates.”

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Study on peri-implantitis published

Details: Published: Wednesday, 27 January 2016 07:43; Written by News Editor; Hits: 4091

Results from a large independent study on peri-implantitis have shown there are substantial differences between implant systems and the occurrence of peri-implantitis. Using the national data register of the Swedish Social Insurance Agency, Dr Jan Derks and colleagues from Gothenburg University in Sweden randomly selected 427 implant patients treated by more than 800 clinicians.

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GDC launches 'road map' for regulation

Details: Published: Tuesday, 26 January 2016 07:40; Written by News Editor; Hits: 3246

The General Dental Council (GDC) has set out a three year plan to make sure patients continue to receive the best quality dental care, entitled Patients, Professionals, Partners and Performance. It gives details on how the GDC will improve its own performance and efficiency by supporting dentists and dental care professionals to provide the best possible care to patients.

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Dental access surveys give a confused message

Details: Published: Monday, 25 January 2016 07:55; Written by News Editor; Hits: 2417

A ‘Your Dentist, Your Say’ report has been published by Healthwatch Lancashire, which says only 63% of people are ‘registered’ with NHS dentist. In Cornwall patients are complaining that there are year-long waiting lists. NHS England continues to claim that nationwide 93% of people were able to get a dental appointment.

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