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Absolute trust
Michael Watson explains why the Gordon Pate case and the role of the GDC is so important. One hundred and…
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What you’ve missed this week
Missed out on this week’s dental news? No problem, here’s what happened over the past seven days… GDC keeps ARF…
Dentistry
GDC keeps ARF the same for 2019 – Ian Brack explains why
Seb Evans (SE): Why have you decided to keep the annual retention fee (ARF) at the same level? Ian Brack…
Dentistry
The importance of cases like GDC and Pate
Matthew Hill explains why the GDC and Pate case was so important to go to fitness to practise. The determination in the…
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Oh, what a circus!
The GDC is showing little common sense with the Gordon Pate case, Alun Rees says. Every registrant present and past…
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GDC responds to consultation claims
The General Dental Council’s (GDC’s) consultation, Clear and certain: a new framework for fee-setting, has now closed. The consultation seeks to gather…
Dentistry
BDA tells GDC to reduce its annual retention fee
The British Dental Association (BDA) has called the GDC’s new consultation on fee setting unacceptable. In its consultation Clear and certain:…
Dentistry
A whirlwind first two years
As John Makin marks two years as head of the DDU, Seb Evans speaks to him about how the last…
Dentistry
You pays your money and they takes their choice
Kevin Lewis looks at how the GDC sets the annual retention fee. My shameless misquote in the above title requires…
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Peter Dyer re-elected as chair of the CCHDS
Peter Dyer has been re-elected as the chair of the British Dental Association’s Central Committee for Hospital Dental Services (CCHDS).…
Dentistry
Why we ought to consider ‘employment’ status for some dental associates
Dentists should be involved in the argument over the employment status of associates, Neel Kothari says. By now some of you…
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NASDAL figures – are dentists overpaid?
Michael Watson questions whether the BDA is ‘crying wolf’ over the pay of dental practice owners. The annual NASDAL (National Association…
Blog
Dental patients’ satisfaction remains ‘very high’
Satisfaction amongst dental patients remains ‘very high’, according to the latest GDC Patient and Public Survey. For those patients that…
Dentistry
GDC launches consultation on education and training
The General Dental Council (GDC) has launched a consultation on the way it quality assures education and training. Proposals in…
Dentistry
GDC consults on approach to fees
After the GDC announced it would be launching a consultation on how it sets its ARF, Seb Evans spoke to…
Dentistry
FGDP(UK) sceptical about combining healthcare regulation into one super regulator
FGDP(UK) says it is sceptical about Government proposals to join all UK health regulators into one ‘super regulator’. The Faculty…
Dentistry
Performer list woes
Dental practice owners are suffering because the NHS and Capita can’t issue performer numbers, Jeff Sherer says. The unfortunate demise of…
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Dental students trained to recognise signs of abuse
Australian dental graduates at James Cook University (JCU) are being trained to recognise signs of domestic abuse. This is the first-of-its-kind…
Dentistry
A new way of teaching implantology
ICE Postgraduate Dental Institute and Hospital boasted a 100% pass rate in its most recent cohort of implantology students, Seb…
Implant dentistry