Female dentists and dental care professionals (DCPs) should be well supported through the menopause and perimenopause to ensure that the profession retains passionate and skilled clinicians for as long as possible, according to Dental Protection.
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The Dental Defence Union has advised dentists to ‘proceed with caution’ if communicating with patients via private messaging apps.
The General Dental Council has decided against carrying out an internal review after GDPUK questioned its decision to decline to answer a Freedom of Information Request on its investigation into the suicide of registrants undergoing Fitness To Practice Investigations.
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Sara Hurley, the English Chief Dental Officer (CDO) sends out periodic updates entitled ‘Your NHS Dentistry and Oral Health Bulletin.’ GDP’s familiar with their style and usual content could be forgiven for not always reading them in their entirety. However there appears to be something quite important buried in the latest tract.
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The new Minister for Health and Social Care has told the Commons “The Government is taking a number of important steps that will improve dental access for patients and will make NHS dentistry more and more attractive place for dentists and their teams to work” during Thursday’s Parliamentary debate on NHS dentistry.”
Day one of the Sunak government. He didn’t exactly get stuck into the NHS dental access problem, as he promised during the original leadership hustings, but his cabinet reshuffle saw Thérèse Coffey switched to the Environment after only being Health Secretary since her appointment by Liz Truss on September 6th.
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Jeremy Hunt found himself in trouble recently for starting a Twitter thread with, “Whilst I have one or two other things in my in-tray today,” as an introduction to his thoughts on a serious healthcare issue.
The General Dental Council has indicated that it won’t be revealing full details of whether Fitness to Practise investigations have been taken against registrants as a result of its monitoring of media and social media.
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The GDC’s 2023 ARF has been set at £690 for dentists (an increase of 1.5%) and £114 for dental professionals – the same as last year.