Board

Mick was elected as Chair of the BDA's board in March 2014. He has been a member since June 2012. 

He qualified in 1985 from Newcastle and has spent all of his practising life in General Practice. For the last 20 years he has been a partner in Armstrong & Haire Ltd a six surgery, mostly NHS practice in Castleford, West Yorkshire.

He has served on BDA's Representative Body and was Chair of LDC Conference in 2010.

Mick is a board member and treasurer of CED.

He was previously an FD trainer. ​

Paul graduated from Newcastle University in 2001 and soon completed the MFDS from Edinburgh. In 2006 he acquired two primarily NHS practices in South Shields, which he subsequently expanded prior to sale in 2015. After seven years as a GPT trainer, he became a Dental Foundation Training Programme Director in 2012 and oversees the GPT scheme in the North East. Since 2017 he has been the Regional Dental Workforce Development Advisor for HEE in the North East. He is a part-time Associate Clinical Lecturer at Newcastle University, and a Fellow of the Faculty of Dental Trainers RCS Edinburgh.

He has been a member of the BDA's board since 2012. His responsibilities include Chair of Pensions Committee, Chair of Students Committee, and membership of GDPC Remuneration Committee. Prior to election onto th board, he was on BDA Representative Body from 2004–2012. He spent five years as BDA Northern Counties Branch Treasurer before becoming Branch President from 2012-2015. His other roles include membership of Gateshead and South Tyneside LDC.

​​Peter worked entirely in general practice, first as an associate for four years and then as a practice owner in Ballymena for thirty years. The practice began life fully NHS but was a mixed practice when it was sold in 2017.

Since then Peter has worked as a dentist on two visits to West Africa with Mercy Ships.

He was Chair of Northern LDC from 2009 to 2011 and Chair of Northern Ireland DPC from June 2010 until January 2018.

He has been married for 35 years and has one daughter, two sons, in-laws and a Scottish granddaughter, Ada.

Peter is a BDA Trustee and a member of the Audit Committee.

John qualified from Liverpool in 1974 and gained an MFGDP in 1993. He has worked throughout his career as a GDP in Blackpool and the Fylde Coast area.

He was appointed a VT trainer in1988 and went on to be appointed to the Dental Vocational Training Authority and as a visiting panel member to several schemes.

He has served his local Fylde Section as Secretary and Chairman and been both Secretary and President of the North Western Branch in 1998 and 2015.

He was elected to serve on Lancashire LDC in 1986 and is currently Chairman of Lancashire Coastal LDC. He is a clinical adviser to the local area team serving on the Routine Care Network and Performers List Decision Panels. In 2002, he was appointed as a Local Adviser for Dental Protection Ltd.

He was appointed to serve on GDSC in 1986 representing the Lancashire region continuously on the GDPC until the present time. He is currently a member of the Legislation Sub Committee.

​Derek qualified BDS Edinburgh 1978 and was awarded  DGDP in 1992.

He has been in the same general practice since 1978. It is now incorporated and he is one of four directors.

He has served on Fife LDC and ADC since 1984.

He has an interest in VT since 1986; chaired SDVTC from 1990 - 93. He had also trained for three years and was a VT Adviser for four years.

He was elected to SDPC and GDPC in 2000 and has served on both since.

He served as Vice-Chair of SDPC for six years and was on the Executive of SDPC from 2004 until his election to the board.

Tony runs his own private referral practice in the beautiful village of Haworth, Bradford, West Yorkshire which has gone through several transformations, starting as an NHS squat practice in 1986, then mixed, then totally private practice and a teaching centre, over the last 30 years.

He is a Training Programme Director for Foundation Training in the Yorkshire and Humber region, a post he has held for over 25 years.

He also brings a wealth of past experiences including being both an elected and then appointed GDC Council member (2003-2013), an Examiner for the Royal College of Surgeons of England, London (1992-2002) at both Membership examinations and Fellowship Assessment levels, a Clinical Teacher in Restorative Dentistry to Undergraduates at the University of Leeds (1986-1991) and the Eastman Dental Institute (1999-2002) and also a Clinical Supervisor at the Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield 1996-2001), amongst other things.

He was also one of the 2012 Olympic Games dentists selected to look after all the visiting Athletes Worldwide at the Olympic Village Polyclinic.

Alison has been a board member since its inception, initially holding a UK-wide seat.

She is a member of the following committees on behalf of the board: Honours & Awards, Finance, English Community Dentist, plus attendance at English Council and UK Council.

She is currently Chair of the Education, Ethics and the Dental Team Working Group.

​Paul qualified from Newcastle University in December of 2000
and immediately went to work in the Kingswalk Practice, which essentially served the staff and students of the university. He completed his VT there before the lure of his homeland became too much and made the epic 40 mile journey back to Teesside.

He then worked as an associate at the Grange Dental Practice until 2012 when he initially became a partner and then sole owner in 2014.  

While at the Grange, he has acted as both a VT trainer
and a mentor, helping to transition dentists into the mysteries of the NHS system! He is also a member of the Tees LDC. 

Outside of dentistry, his main distractions are his family, principally his little girl Ava, and rugby, originally as a player but of late mainly as an ill-informed know-it-all spectator!