Practice management: Menopause and the workplace
Employment law adviser Janice Sibbald offers advice on supporting employees experiencing menopause
Call log
These cases are based on actual calls made to MDDUS advisers and are published here to highlight common challenges within dental practice. Details have been changed to maintain confidentiality.
Risk: Disclosure of dental patient records
Knowing how to respond appropriately to different types of access requests poses an ongoing challenge for busy practices.
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.
Pre-op surgical care to help reduce cancelled operations
DEDICATED NHS care teams in England will screen patients and develop personalised plans ahead of surgical procedures to boost recovery as well as cut the number of operations that are cancelled on the day.
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.
Significant drop in uptake of MMR
UPTAKE of the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccination in children has dropped to the lowest level in a decade, according to the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA).