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Published: Wednesday, 11 September 2013 18:01
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GDPUK Exclusive
Last Monday the BDA sent its staff a consultation letter as the first stage in making widespread redundancies. GDPUK believes this has been brought about as a result of the new three-tier membership system introduced in June. Overwhelmingly members have chosen the cheapest option, causing a substantial reduction in subscription income allegedly amounting to millions of pounds.
Read more: BDA to make staff redundant
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Published: Tuesday, 10 September 2013 08:16
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The managing director of Genix Healthcare, Mustafa Mohammed, is investing £1m in a new facility in Leeds to offer manufacturing and training facilities and job opportunities for 200, including apprentices. With many practices now outsourcing their lab work to overseas laboratories, the British dental technician trade has taken a sharp decline in recent years. The new facility Sparkle Dental Laboratories Ltd is looking to change this.
Read more: Large new laboratory opens in Leeds
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Published: Monday, 09 September 2013 16:38
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GDPUK.com are pleased to announce that they will be exhibiting at the BDTA Showcase from Thursday October 17th to the 19th October 2013. GDPUK will be on stand L06a.
This is the first time that GDPUK have exhibited at a major dental conference. The show will provide a tremendous platform for the 6000 members of the forum to meetup and chat face to face instead of keyboard to keyboard!
Read more: GDPUK exhibiting at Dental Showcase
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Published: Monday, 09 September 2013 07:56
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The BDTA was delighted with the success of the UK Pavilion at the 101st FDI Annual World Dental Congress Exhibition held in Istanbul, Turkey on 28 to 31August. All the UK exporters based on the BDTA organised UK national pavilion were very satisfied with what they achieved at the event and happy to be part of the distinctive UK Pavilion.
Read more: UK Pavilion pulls in the crowds at FDI-Istanbul
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Published: Friday, 06 September 2013 10:40
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People with poor oral hygiene could be at higher risk of developing Alzheimer's compared with those who have healthy mouths, according to recent research from the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan). The presence of porphyromonas gingivalis in the brains of patients who had dementia when they were alive. The bacterium is usually associated with chronic periodontal disease.
Read more: Link found between Alzheimer's disease and poor dental health
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Published: Friday, 06 September 2013 10:40
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In an interview with Health Service Journal, Sir Malcolm Grant, NHS England chair, has revealed that all of NHS England’s current national directors have ruled themselves out of replacing Sir David Nicholson. He also said he will consider people ‘from outside the UK and with no health service experience as candidates to be the organisation’s chief executive.’
Read more: None of ‘usual suspects’ wants to replace Nicholson
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Published: Monday, 02 September 2013 22:30
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GDPUK is proud to announce that August was a record month for the dental community website. In August alone the site had 30,123 unique visitors who made a total of 125,072 visits, meaning that the site averaged over 4000 visits a day. Unique visitors and number of visits has grown rapidly in 2013 which is due to the continued popularity of the forum, the regular dental news and a focus on a range of dental-related blogs.
Read more: GDPUK breaks records again
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Published: Monday, 02 September 2013 16:59
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More than 35,000 (35,733) dental care professionals (DCPs) have declared that they have met the General Dental Council’s (GDC) Continuing Professional Development (CPD) requirements. However that left 1,947 who failed to declare the necessary 150 CPD hours (of which 50 hours must be verifiable).
Read more: Not all DCPs have met CPD requirements
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Published: Monday, 02 September 2013 10:06
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GDPUK EXCLUSIVE
Applications for Dental Foundation Training (DFT) in 2014 opened on August 23. Hidden in the new ‘Person Specification’ it says that it is ‘desirable’ that the candidate requires DFT ‘as the only route to access the NHS Dental Performers List’. UK graduates should therefore have preference over those from the rest of the EEA in the coming round.
Read more: UK graduates to be given preference for Foundation Training
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