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IN-PERSON EVENT, hosted by Essex Branch and Essex LDC

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Please note, this event is FREE for BDA members, LDC members and DCPs. If you are a LDC member, online bookings are not available, so please email [email protected] or call the events line on 020 7563 4590 (Mon-Thurs 09:00-17:00) to book.

What to expect

A full day event covering core CPD topics and personal development topics.

Timings

08:30   Registration and refreshments

09:00   Lectures start

17:00   Ends

Learning objectives

  • Identify signs of burnout, apply emotional regulation and physical performance hacks and integrate leadership behaviours that enhance wellbeing and team performance
  • Identify common ethical challenges in dentistry, explain the impact of breaching GDC standards and outline strategies to prevent ethical errors
  • Learn how to deliver the strategy by improving safety culture, completing patient safety training, using the new incident recording system and understanding responses under the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework.

Development outcomes

A, B and D

Meet the speakers

Joe Allen Head of Patient Safety, Suffolk and North East Essex ICB
Rana Al-Falaki Executive and leadership coach, author, speaker and Specialist Periodontist
Gareth Davies
Rowena Harland Quality Lead, Suffolk and North East Essex ICB
Bryan Harvey Senior Dento-Legal Adviser at the DDU and Chair of Essex LDC
Catherine Rowland
Jason Stokes Jason Stokes GDP

More information

Download the booking form as a word or pdf document and return to [email protected]

Please email [email protected] with any dietary requirements.

08:30  Registration

09:00  Optimal performance: the new gold standard of success

Aim
To help dental professionals understand the link between leadership and wellbeing that prevents burnout and learn practical strategies to enhance performance and resilience.

Learning objectives

  • Identify signs of burnout
  • Apply emotional regulation and physical performance hacks
  • Integrate leadership behaviours that enhance wellbeing and team performance.

Rana Al-Falaki,
Specialist Periodontist, Certified Professional Coach, Optimal Performance Strategist, Energy Leadership Master Practitioner, Bestselling Author

 

10:00  Orthodontic referrals for the GDP and IOTN
             Gareth Davies

11:00  Refreshments break

11:30  Dental ethics

Aim
This session will explore and expand on the GDC Ethical Guidance (Standards). It will use real world scenarios to show where dental team members have "come unstuck" by misunderstanding or misapplying the ethical standards that underpin our profession.

Learning objectives

  • Characterize some of the common ethical pitfalls for Dentists and their Teams
  • Define the consequences of breaching the GDC ethical standards
  • Demonstrate how to effectively avoid ethical missteps

Jason Stokes, GDP

 

12:30  Patient safety culture in practice

Aim
To provide an overview of the NHS Patient Safety Strategy in Primary Care. Launched in September 2024, the strategy describes the national and local commitments to improve patient safety in primary care, supporting all areas in this sector to fully implement the NHS Patient Safety Strategy.

Learning objectives

  • Identify the key deliverables of the strategy including how to improve safety culture
  • Understand how to complete the national patient safety syllabus training
  • Understand how to register for and use the new incident recording (LFPSE)
  • Recognise incident responses within the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF).

Joe Allen and Rowena Harland

13:00  Lunch

14:00  Complaints handling and clinical note keeping 
             Bryan Harvey

15:00  Antiresorptive medications/MRONJ
            Catherine Rowland

16:00  “There is nothing to be afraid of” guidance for extractions on patients with anticoagulants
           and other medical issues
            Catherine Rowland

17:00  Close of study day

The Lion Inn
Main Road, Boreham
Chelmsford
Essex CM3 3JA

Complimentary parking available on-site 

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I really liked the variety of topics and speakers; the study days are always very well organised and attending them is always a pleasure

Fantastic event with great speakers, thoroughly enjoyed

Very useful and informative day, nice to see people and learn together