'Urgent care' Blog Posts

• What do we know about dentistry in Northern Ireland to help reduce AMR?

  What do we know about dentistry in Northern Ireland to help reduce AMR? We respond the UK Government's new 5-year plan and 20 year vision for tackling AMR, highlighting the issues dentists are facing.

  Blog Date 30 January, 2019

• Are you prepared for a medical emergency in your dental practice?

  Practice Management Consultant Harriet Purdie shares some tips for helping ensure your practice is ready to deal with medical emergencies.

  Blog Date 11 December, 2018

• Action is needed on protected slots for urgent dental care

  Nick Stolls says there is a need for more urgent care slots to be commissioned to ensure dental patients can be treated quickly and appropriately, especially out-of-hours.

  Blog Date 7 August, 2018

• Why do dental patients overdose on painkillers?

  Charlotte Currie, Clinical Fellow in Oral Surgery, takes a look at the current evidence on why patients often resort to self-medication with painkillers, and encourages dentists to be on the look-out for patients who might be at serious risk of overdose.

  Blog Date 25 July, 2017

• A road block for dentists and patients: Capita incompetence

  It’s a bizarre world when hundreds of thousands of patients with dental problems are pitching up at A&E or seeing their GP, who are usually unable to treat these patients.

  Blog Date 17 January, 2017