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11 Oct 2024 • Newsfeed

World Mental Health Day: is the profession still suffering?

We take a closer look at data from the Dentistry Census 2024 on the topic of mental health for World Mental Health Day. Mental health problems are a growing concern within dentistry. With the sector…

10 Oct 2024 • Blog, Practice Management, Uncategorized

Understanding your practice costs

Regional Support Manager, Sarah Barnard, highlights the importance of understanding practice costs. Do you know the operating costs per surgery, per day for your practice? If your answer to that is ‘no’, then it seems…

10 Oct 2024 • Newsfeed

Six in 10 NHS patients would consider private care, says report

More than six in 10 (61%) of NHS dental patients would consider paying for private dental care, new research suggests.

9 Oct 2024 • Newsfeed

Are dental therapists going to save the NHS?

Cat Edney examines how the role of dental therapists has evolved in recent years and explores whether they might be the solution to fixing NHS dentistry. First we saw the NHS FP-17 form altered to…

3 Oct 2024 • Newsfeed Sub, Dental Profession

BDA – Keeping dentistry on Westminster’s agenda

We have fought to put dentistry at the very top of the political agenda, and that’s continued into the political parties’ Autumn conference season We pressed ahead at both Government and Opposition annual conferences,…

7 Oct 2024 • Newsfeed

Benefits of water fluoridation in decline, review finds

New research suggests that water fluoridation is a cost-effective measure but only leads to a slightly lower prevalence of caries in children.

1 Oct 2024 • Newsfeed Sub, Regulation

Four in five whistleblowing reports led to regulatory action, GDC reveals

The General Dental Council (GDC) has published its 2024 annual report on whistleblowing disclosures in dentistry. From 01 April 2023 to 31 March 2024 the GDC received 79 disclosures of information. This compares to 82…

2 Oct 2024 • Podcasts, Practice Management

Insights from Hive Business Consultancy with Ross Martin

In this episode, Ian Eslick, Regional Support Manager at Practice Plan sits down with Ross Martin, a strategic consultant at Hive Business Consultancy, to discuss the essential role of dental specialist accountants and the importance…

30 Sep 2024 • Newsfeed Sub, Dental Profession

Using AI to engage gen Z in dental health

Alan Clarke explains how AI and a tech-driven approach can be used to engage millennials and gen Z in dental health.

26 Sep 2024 • Newsfeed Sub, Dental Profession

Dental research podcast featuring world-leading experts launched

A podcast series for oral care professionals featuring world-leading experts has launched. The ‘Let’s Talk Oral Health’ podcast will focus on the newest practices in periodontics and implant dentistry whilst discussing the latest dental research.

27 Sep 2024 • Blog, Practice Management

How to Manage Risk

Selina Alexander reports on a recent presentation she attended by Aubrey Craig, a Senior Dento-legal Adviser at MDDUS, on the human factors in Dentistry and how to manage risk. Are there areas of your practice…

26 Sep 2024 • Newsfeed Sub, Regulation

‘Desire for improvements’ to ORE availability, GDC reveals

The General Dental Council (GDC) has published the outcome of its call for evidence on the structure and operation of the overseas registration examination (ORE).

25 Sep 2024 • Podcasts, Practice Management

Empowering dental nurses: Building value and recognition with Fiona Ellwood BEM

In this episode, Hazel Dockery is joined by Fiona Elwood, Chief Executive of the Society of British Dental Nurses. They discuss why it is so important for dental nurses to learn to value themselves and…

20 Sep 2024 • Newsfeed Sub, Dental Profession

Seven actions to transform UK dental care

Neil Carmichael introduces the Patients First paper, the ADG’s recommended strategy for government reform of UK dental care.

18 Sep 2024 • Podcasts, Practice Management

Be Supported: What should you expect from a dental plan provider?

Katrina James, Area Manager at Practice Plan discusses what you should expect from a dental plan provider as well as outlining the excellent support offered by Practice Plan. What you’ll hear about: Working with industry…

17 Sep 2024 • Newsfeed Sub, Dental Health

Calls for action on ‘national embarrassment’ of children’s oral health

‘Urgent action is needed’: a new report has laid out a strategy for the government to improve children’s oral health as research demonstrates high levels of dental disease.

20 Sep 2024 • Blog, Practice Management, Uncategorized

Becoming a Treatment Co-ordinator with Kayleigh Robinson

Treatment Coordinator, Kayleigh Robinson, offers advice to aspiring Treatment Coordinators (TCOs) and charts her career path to date. There are many different types of TCO and I suppose in some ways we all do the…

16 Sep 2024 • Newsfeed Sub

Plans for new dental school remain uncertain

Plans to open a new dental school at the University of East Anglia (UEA) are ‘not a done deal’ as government discussions continue. The university had hoped to open the new facility to tackle the…