GDC

Nursing Matters – utilising your personal development plan (PDP)

This month for Nursing Matters, Gemma Forsythe offers advice on how to get the most out of your Personal Development…

Dental Nursing

Dental news you’ve missed this week – 9 July 2022

Missed out on this week’s dental news? No problem, here’s what happened over the past seven days… Linking dental and…

Dentistry

Save now, pay later – don’t risk your GDC registration over a ‘bargain’

Edmund Proffitt, chief executive of the BDIA, discusses the risks of buying counterfeit dental equipment and how to avoid it. …

Dentistry

Sponsored

GDC opens consultation on three-year strategic plan

The GDC is requesting public views on its plans for the next three years, which includes an increase of the…

Dentistry

Catch up with your CPD now before July deadline

With less than two months to go until the registration renewal deadline, dental care professionals are reminded to complete their…

Clinical Dentistry

Dental health inequalities worse for patients from Asian and black ethnic backgrounds, says report

New insight into health inequalities shows that dental access troubles disproportionately affect young people and patients from black and Asian…

Dentistry

The Secret Dentist – time to get off the NHS dentistry fence

This month The Secret Dentist calls on organisations in dentistry to say NHS dentistry is not fit for purpose. In…

Dentistry

Dental news you’ve missed this week – 13 May 2022

Missed out on this week’s dental news? No problem, here’s what happened over the past seven days… Only 7% in…

Dentistry

Overseas registration backlog increases by 35%

Figures reveal the waiting list backlog for the Overseas Registration Exam (ORE) has increased by 35% compared to last year.…

Dentistry

Mental health in dentistry – is perfectionism still possible?

Robert Chaffe details the experiences he went through last year that left him fighting a GDC fitness to practise case.…

Aesthetic dentistry

MP voices concerns over ‘financially unviable’ dental practices

An MP has spoken out about the state of dentistry in Wales and made calls for swift action.  Rob Roberts…

Dentistry

Dentist suspended after calling patient ‘darling’ and kissing her on cheek

A dentist has been suspended for six months after calling a patient pet names and kissing her head without consent.…

Dentistry

The legal eagle – making GDC registration easy

The process to be restored to the register has become increasingly difficult, says John Makin. There continue to be reports…

Dentistry

Spring clean your dental complaints procedure

A new year is a great time for a spring clean. Here Lesley Taylor explains why now is the ideal…

Dentistry

Is providing NHS dentistry really worth it?

Nigel Jones looks at the question of whether providing NHS dentistry in your practice is really worth it. Few would…

NHS to Private

Kevin Lewis – square pegs, round holes and other conundrums

As conversations concerning NHS dentistry continue to reverberate, Kevin Lewis offers up his own take on the unfolding crisis. Albert…

Dentistry

Dentist suspended after telling dental nurse that her eyes ‘are like the snake from the Jungle Book’

A dentist has been suspended after telling a dental nurse that her eyes ‘are like the snake from the Jungle…

Dentistry

Dental news you’ve missed this week

Missed out on this week’s dental news? No problem, here’s what happened over the past seven days… ‘The system is…

Dentistry

Government propose changes on registration laws for overseas dentists

The laws paving registration routes for overseas dental professionals could be changed under a new consultation.  Yesterday the government announced…

Dentistry