Telegraph letter picked up by media

Details: Published: Wednesday, 06 January 2016 07:40; Written by News Editor; Hits: 3009

The letter from 400 dentists, many of them members of GDPUK, published in the Daily Telegraph and the accompanying article by the paper’s social affairs editor have been taken up elsewhere in the media. It was covered on the BBC news website and articles appeared in the DailyMail and Indpenedent. Most focussed on the claim that dental health standards were falling to ‘Third World’ levels in parts of England.

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Russ Ladwa to chair for BDA Health and Science Committee

Details: Published: Tuesday, 05 January 2016 07:58; Written by News Editor; Hits: 1953

Russ Ladwa is to chair the BDA's Health and Science Committee. He is a member of the BDA's PEC and was previously Dean at the FGDP and President of the Odontology Section at the Royal Society of Medicine. Russ takes a great interest in continuing education and training and has worked as postgraduate tutor.

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Dental implant complications highlighted in JDR

Details: Published: Tuesday, 05 January 2016 07:51; Written by News Editor; Hits: 4799

January JDR highlights dental implant complications

The International and American Associations for Dental Research (IADR/AADR) have published in the January issue of the Journal of Dental Research articles that explore new evidence on the biological complications of dental implants and the great challenges associated with predictable implant therapy.

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Preshaw stresses links of diabetes to perio disease at BDA

Details: Published: Monday, 04 January 2016 07:46; Written by News Editor; Hits: 3712

Professor Philip Preshaw was the latest eminent scientist to address the annual BDA/BDJ Winter Lecture series. His lecture in December at the British Dental Association central London headquarters, provided an insight into the links between periodontal disease, diabetes and heart disease. The lecture was filmed and will be made available for free to all BDA members via a webcast in the New Year.

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Four dentists honoured in New Year list

Details: Published: Thursday, 31 December 2015 08:30; Written by News Editor; Hits: 4813

The New Year Honours list was published on December 31. Four dentists are to be honoured by HM The Queen.

Margie Taylor, Chief Dental Officer for Scotland, is appointed CBE.

Jane Davies-Slowik Associate Dental Dean, Health Education England, West Midlands and Special Care Dentist, Wolverhampton NHS is appointed MBE.

Eric Rooney Consultant in Dental Public Health, Public Health England and recently appointed Deputy Chief Dental Officer England is also appointed MBE.

Ashley Lupin from Canterbury Kent has been awarded the British Empire Medal (BEM) for humanitarian services to Medical Training in Uganda.

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Dentist jailed for defrauding NHS

Details: Published: Wednesday, 30 December 2015 08:54; Written by News Editor; Hits: 3583

A dentist from north-west London has been jailed for claiming payments totalling £780,000 for work which was never carried out. Jayantilal Bhikhabhai Mistry, 67, from Willesden, was sentenced to three years and ordered to pay £50,000 in costs for fraud and false accounting. Mistry admitted the fraud and paid back the money in full.

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Professor Aubrey Sheiham has died

Details: Published: Wednesday, 30 December 2015 08:52; Written by News Editor; Hits: 2799

Aubrey Sheiham, professor emeritus of dental public health at University College London died in November at the age of 79. A controversial figure he first made headlines through a paper in the Lancet which concluded that there was little evidence to support the six-monthly dental check-up. He believed that he was vindicated by the NICE guidelines in 2004.

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Time for regulators to cut red tape

Details: Published: Tuesday, 29 December 2015 07:59; Written by News Editor; Hits: 4483

The dental regulators have said that the system they oversee is placing huge burdens on the profession. Dr Janet Williamson from the Regulation of the Dental Services Programme Board, has said that the bodies need to "think differently" to deliver for patients. Their report, on the future of dental service regulation, outlines steps to rationalise dental regulation, including needed action on data sharing, complaint management, quality improvement and communications.

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Parliament promised reform of health regulators

Details: Published: Wednesday, 23 December 2015 07:39; Written by News Editor; Hits: 3706

Junior health minister Ben Gummer MP has told Parlaiment that the Government recognises the need for ‘immediate reform’ of healthcare regulation but did not offer any explicit commitments to give the matter parliamentary time. BDA Chair Mick Armstrong said: “It’s good to see warm words on regulatory reform, but what we really need is a timetable”.

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