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).
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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
A dentist has been struck off by the General Dental Council (GDC) following a public hearing at which it was found proved that he conducted an inappropriate intimate examination on a woman and offered to perform female circumcision on two children. The allegations against Omar Sheikh Mohamed Addow were heard by the GDC‘s Professional Conduct Committee.
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Read more: Dentist struck off for offering to perform female circumcision
A general dental practitioner from South Yorkshire has been awarded more than £164,000 to investigate whether dental filling materials that contain plastics act as environmental pollutants. Dr Steven Mulligan, an associate dentist at practices in Rotherham and Sheffield and Honorary Clinical fellow at Sheffield University, will lead a two-year research project that is expected to commence in January 2014.
The General Dental Council (GDC) has announced that 33 new Fitness to Practise (FtP) panel members joined the regulator on 27 August 2013. Nine dentists, 12 lay members and 11 dental care professionals were recruited and will now be phased into hearings through to the end of this year. They will sit on the Interim Orders, Professional Conduct, Health, Performance and Registration Appeals Committees.
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Regenerative Endodontics, a new treatment for saving the teeth of adolescents, is likely to enter the dental mainstream, predicts Julian Webber of Harley Street Centre for Endodontics. He has welcomed the new procedure which potentially allows endodontists to save immature posterior and anterior teeth without the need for conventional root canal treatment.
Read more: Pioneering new endo treatment for young patients announced
The General Dental Council (GDC) has set out its action plan in response to recommendations contained in the Francis Report. The first recommendation of the Francis Report into the failings at Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust is that all those involved in the provision or regulation of health care services must set out how they intend to respond to the report's findings and recommendations. This action plan is the GDC's response to this recommendation.
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