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The Peterborough Dental Access Centre was last night named as the winner of the British Dental Association (BDA) Good Practice Scheme Practice-of-the-Year Award.
Date: 27/11/2009
Radiation safety specialists have warned dental practices to comply with radiation regulations or face enforcement action - including prosecution. The Health and Safety Executive’s Radiation Specialist Inspectors issued the warning after becoming increasingly concerned about levels of compliance with the Ionising Radiations Regulations (IRR99).
Date: 25/11/2009
The British Dental Association (BDA) has called once again for a full review of the evidence base for the HTM 01-05 guidance document on decontamination in dental surgeries.
Date: 17/11/2009
The unnecessarily complex contracts for dental access funding make them risky and inappropriate for dental practice, despite some changes made by the Department of Health (DH), the BDA’s General Dental Practice Committee (GDPC) has said today.
Date: 16/11/2009
The Scottish CDO, Margie Taylor has published timescales for compliance with decontamination requirements in Scotland, namely, installing local decontamination units (LDUs). Her letter to the profession and a summary of the background to this can be viewed in full here.
Date: 12/11/2009
An “unacceptable and growing chasm” exists in the UK between those with good and poor oral health, according to the British Dental Association’s (BDA’s) Oral Health Inequalities Policy which is published today.
Date: 30/10/2009
The momentum of activity on dentistry at Westminster continued with the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Dentistry holding its first meeting since Parliament’s summer recess on the 20 October.
Date: 21/10/2009
A Conservative Opposition Day Debate on dentistry on 14 October witnessed discussion of a broad range of dental policy issues, including the need to progress Professor Steele’s conclusions, lack of meaningful engagement with the profession on the dental access contracts, effectiveness of PCT commissioning and water fluoridation.
Date: 15/10/2009
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