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Advice (A to Z)

All members can access our extensive range of online advice written by our team of experienced advisors.

 

​A

Anticoagulants and antiplatelet drugs

Applying for a Dental Vocational Training Number via 'Equivalence' in Scotland

Applying for a Dental Vocational Training Number via 'Equivalence' in Northern Ireland

Associate contracts

Associate payments during the pandemic in England

Associates working in general dental practice

Associate leaving a practice

Associates - quick guide

Associates - side agreement for previous periods of the pandemic - England

Associates - side agreement for previous period of the pandemic - Wales

​B

Botox® and non-surgical cosmetic procedures

Bullying harassment and violence at work

Business continuity planning

Business names and brands

Business planning and managing change

Buying a dental practice

​C

CQC - changing your registration

CQC - guidance on applying

CQC - compliance requirements

CQC - inspections and reports

CQC - monitoring approach

CQC - what a good inspection looks like

Careers in dentistry

Cleanliness: National Standards of Healthcare Cleanliness 2021

Clinical audit and peer review

Combined Practice Inspection checklist - Scotland

Companies and LLPs

Complaints handling

Consent

CPD (enhanced) - a summary

CV writing

D​

Data protection

Data Security and Protection Toolkit (DSPT) - Guide to completing

Death and serious illness

Dental unit waterlines

Dentists parental leave and pay

Dentists legal rights as commercial purchasers

Dentists long-term sickness and pay

Disability discrimination - dentists as service providers

Disciplinary procedures and dismissal

​E

Emergency drug poster

Employees' maternity and parental rights

Employee pay and rewards

Employing staff

Employment contracts practice sales and TUPE

Enhanced CPD - a summary

Equality and diversity in the workplace

​F

Face masks - how to spot a fake

Fee collection

Fees guide - Northern Ireland

Fees guide - Scotland

Fee setting

Financial management

Freedom of information (FOIA)

Furloughed workers - template letter to employees

​G

GDPR explained

GDPR - FAQs

GDS in England and Wales - guide to the standard contract

Grievance at work

​H

Health and safety

Healthcare waste

Health Inspectorate Wales (HIW) registration guidance

​I

Incorporation concerns in NI and Scotland

Indemnity

Infection control

​J

Jury service and public duties

​L

Leases and licences

Legionella - risk assessment (SDCEP external site)

Locums

​M

Managing performance and appraisals

Maternity and adoption leave and pay - Dentists'

Maternity and adoption leave and pay - Employees’

Medical devices

Medical emergencies

Medical emergencies poster

Menopause and perimenopause policy

Money laundering

Music and visual recordings in the practice

​N

New practice start-up

NHSMail account setup for private practice

NHS BSA Dental Activity Review

NHS dentistry in England and Wales

NHS dentistry in Northern Ireland

NHS dentistry in Scotland

NHS dispute resolution – England and Wales

NHS England: Guidance on completing the Coronavirus 2020-21 year-end declaration form

NHS England targets January to March 2022  

NHS England targets January to March 2021

NHS England targets April to September 2021

​O

Occupational health service

​P

Partnerships

Paternity leave - Dentists'

Paternity leave - Employees’

Patient-facing communications

Patient-facing communications poster

Pensions - annual limits

Pensions - calculation of NHSPS Net pensionable earnings (England and Wales)

Pensions - NHS pension information statements

Pensions - NHS pension scheme - How to retire (England and Wales)

Pensions - in the GDS (95 and 08 sections)

Pensions - in the salaried services (95 and 08 sections)

Pensions - Lifetime allowance

Pensions - Prison dentists: access to NHS pensions scheme

Pensions - the 2015 Scheme

Pensions - Age discrimination remedy and public service pensions 

Pensions - USS changes

Pensions - NHS pensions 24-hour retirement

Planning permission

PPE checklist

Prescribing and medicines management

Private dental plans and in-practice capitation schemes

Private practice - Moving to private practice NI

Private practice - Moving to private practice Scotland

Protecting personal information

Provision of private dental treatment in Northern Ireland

​R

Radiation - Guidance Notes for Dental Practitioners on the Safe Use of X-ray Equipment (2nd Edition)

Radiation - Advice on guidance of Safe Use of X-ray Equipment 2nd Edition

Radiograph quality audit FAQs

Recruiting staff

Redundancy

Remote consultation during pandemic

Respiratory protective equipment - monthly maintenance checks

Risk assessment

Risk assessments during the COVID-19 pandemic

Risk assessment - Fully vaccinated staff identified as in contact with a COVID-19 case

​S

Safeguarding patients

Sedation - patient and operator safety

Selling a dental practice

Sickness absence

Specialty training

Stress

​T

Tax

Tendering in England and Wales

Title 'Dr'

Tooth whitening


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​One-to-one advice

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