Advice: Snakes and ladders – the path to success
Dental business coach Alun Rees looks at some of the challenges clinicians face including hubris, humility, hypocrisy and happiness.
Coping with Covid – the top 6 challenges
Dental teams continue to face unprecedented challenges during the pandemic – but could psychological science provide practical solutions?
Referrals - who, why, when, how?
Dental adviser and Insight editor Sarah Harford offers advice on common challenges dentists face when referring patients
Study urges dental professionals to seek expert legal advice when facing fitness to practise concerns
Dental professionals facing fitness to practise concerns are being urged by the General Dental Council to engage legal representation.
Call to end “unnecessary delay” in registering overseas dentists
THE GDC has announced support for new government proposals to amend legislation causing delay in international routes to registration.
Wide variation in pandemic impact on dental teams
THERE is wide variation in the way dental teams in Scotland are coping with the pressures of the pandemic, new research has shown.
U-turn on mandatory vaccine for healthcare staff
HEALTHCARE leaders in England are being advised not to serve termination notices to unvaccinated staff as the government prepares to withdraw measures to make vaccination a condition of deployment.
Antibiotic cover
...It is alleged that had Ms G's concerns been properly heeded and antibiotic cover provided, she would have avoided unnecessary surgery and a hospital stay...
Disclosure of patient records
Knowing how to respond appropriately to different types of access requests poses an ongoing challenge for busy practices.
Survey suggests quarter of dental nurses unvaccinated
JUST over a quarter of dental nurses have not yet received two doses of a Covid-19 vaccination according to a survey conducted by the British Association of Dental Nurses (BADN).