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Published: Friday, 11 January 2013 07:42
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Testing by the Health Protection Agency (HPA) has revealed that the Tianjie Dental Falcon device lacks sufficient shielding in the X-ray tube, which could give rise to high patient doses and under typical high radiographic workloads result in operator doses in excess of the Ionising Radiation Regulations 1999 annual dose limits. This could give rise to adverse health effects caused by radiation.
Read more: MHRA issues warning on Tianjie Dental ‘Falcon’
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Published: Friday, 11 January 2013 07:39
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Following the retirement of Andrew Lamb, Pat Kilpatrick has been appointed as the new Director of the British Dental Association (BDA) for Scotland. She will take up her post in January 2013 and brings to the post extensive experience in the healthcare sector including operational and strategic management, policy development, and postgraduate teaching and research. She is not a dentist.
Read more: New director appointed for BDA in Scotland
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Published: Wednesday, 09 January 2013 16:41
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Stephen Dorrell MP, chair of the Commons Health Committee has described it as ‘extraordinary’ that the Care Quality Commission (CQC) had yet to define its core purpose. A report on the CQC’s performance found a ‘worrying disconnect’ between official inspection results and the real standards experienced by patients. It also failed to communicate the results of its inspections to patients, residents and their families, the report found.The Committee’s conclusions and recommndations appear below.
Read more: Health Committee condemns CQC’s workings
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Published: Wednesday, 09 January 2013 07:18
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A quartet of financial investors is in the running to buy Oasis Healthcare, the UK’s second-largest private dental chain, for as much as £160m, according to a report in the Sunday Telegraph. It is believed a total of seven potential bidders received management presentations from dental chain Oasis.
Read more: Battle of bids for Oasis heats up
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Published: Wednesday, 09 January 2013 07:18
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“…My illness is preventing me carrying out my profession as a dentist... Please help me as I am in a financial mess which is making my health worse” The BDA Benevolent Fund has been helping dentists and their families ever since 1882. It is thanks to the generosity of the dental profession that the Fund has survived all these years and can still assist those who find themselves facing hardship.
Read more: Make a New Year’s resolution to help the BDA Benevolent Fund
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Published: Tuesday, 01 January 2013 18:55
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Happy New Year for 2013 to all GDPUK members and readers from Tony Jacobs and the growing GDPUK team.
GDPUK is pleased to announce the launching of the GDPUK forums onto smartphones. The GDPUK website now has most sections optimised for mobile devices, and users can switch between views.
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Published: Saturday, 29 December 2012 11:51
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Published: Friday, 28 December 2012 09:31
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A new study from the USA claims that people who drink more than four cups of caffeinated coffee a day have half the risk of dying from oral/pharyngeal cancer compared with people who drink it either occasionally or not at all. However, the researchers say their findings need to be confirmed by more research.
Read more: Coffee drinking may halve risk of oral cancer
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Published: Saturday, 22 December 2012 12:19
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A mobile ‘tooth bus’ – which contains a dentists’ chair, computer and dental equipment – will be driven to various towns in Oxfordshire until February next year. It will offer free check ups to anyone who lives in Oxfordshire who has not seen an NHS dentist in the last two years. If a patient on the tooth bus needs treatment, they will be referred to their nearest NHS dental practice, where usual NHS charges apply.
Read more: Mobile ‘tooth bus’ tours Oxfordshire
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