Dental Recovery Plan: What it means for you

Shawn graduated from Birmingham Dental School and has qualifications from the University of Bristol and the Faculty of General Dental Practitioners UK. He owned a large mixed practice and has worked as a Foundation Trainer, holding postgraduate positions at the Manchester Dental School and at the Manchester Royal Infirmary Maxillo-Facial Department, as well as being an officer in the Royal Army Dental Corps TA. He has been on the GDPC for 15 years and is now Chair, he also currently sits on the GDPC-LDC Regional Liaison Group, GDPC Associates Group and the BDA’s Review Body Evidence Committee and the British Dental Guild. He was previously the Chair of Lincolnshire LDC, which he has been a member of for 25 years.

Shiv qualified in 1985 from Newcastle Dental School. He is a GDP and has been a provider and owner of several NHS practices in the North-East. He has been the GDPC representative for Newcastle, North Tyneside and Northumberland since 1996. He obtained a Bachelor of Law degree (LLB Hons) in 1995. Shiv is also employed as an Associate Clinical Lecturer, a Clinical Dental Adviser, and a Postgraduate Dental Tutor within Health Education England. He was awarded an MBE in the Queens Honours List in 2009 for services to NHS dentistry locally.

Vijay has worked in his own dental practice in Birmingham for over twenty-four years and as well as clinical duties, is actively involved in representation of the profession locally and nationally. Vijay is Vice Chair of the BDA's General Dental Practitioner Committee; Secretary of Birmingham Local Dental Committee and he has a part time role at the Birmingham Dental Hospital. Vijay has been an FD trainer for over a decade too.