The General Dental Council has turned down a Freedom of Information request asking for the number of registrants who have taken their own lives while under Fitness to Practise investigations.
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BDA General Dental Practice Committee Chair Shawn Charlwood, told MPs at the Health and Social Care inquiry into Recruitment and Retention Across Healthcare the stark realties facing NHS dentistry when he and colleagues, including Eddie Crouch, met them this week.
Read more: BDA’s Shawn Charlwood Lays It On The Line To Commons
The daily reports on Monkeypox show a steady increase in case numbers both in the UK and worldwide. Will this affect UK dentistry? Must colleagues be on the lookout?
GDPUK can reveal that 46% of the candidates who failed the Overseas Registration Examination in January 2022 are already registered with the General Dental Council.
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‘They want dentistry out of the NHS’ warns Eddie Crouch.
As Artifical Intelligence, AI, plays an ever increasing role in our lives, it is only a matter of time before it becomes as essential a part of clinical dentistry, as a mirror and probe have been in the past.
The British Dental Association’s Dr Shawn Charlwood has given evidence to the Parliamentary Health and Social Care Committee which is looking into workforce recruitment, training and retention in health and social care.
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To gain the ear of government it helps to speak their preferred language. Speaking at the launch of this year’s National Smile Month the Oral Health Foundation’s chief executive, Dr Nigel Carter, has done just that.
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The British Dental Association has called for a freeze on NHS dental charges after the Health Secretary froze prescription charges to "help ease cost of living pressures."
Read more: BDA Calls For A ‘Vital’ Freeze On NHS Patient Charges