FIONA ELLWOOD

Time to consider the impact of having multiple definitions of varying perspectives of the role of dental nurses and dental nursing.

The Society has been working with a number of dental nurse registrants and representatives to establish a definition that is worthy of the current-day dental nurse and dental nursing. A recent research piece undertaken by the Executive Director of the Society has made it very clear that being valued, recognised, and acknowledged shapes and informs

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the Society presents on the GDC survey findings for dental nurses.

The Society was honoured to present the position of dental nurses from a member’s perspective and the wider dental nursing community. The Society was asked to present the information against the backdrop of 4 questions posed by the General Dental Council: Given 5 minutes to provide a summary was perhaps a challenge in itself. Nevertheless,

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The Society of British Dental Nurses Announces THE New President, Chair and Patron at AGM

We are thrilled to announce that Clare Faulkner has become the President of the Society. Clare has an extensive portfolio in dental nursing and is currently a dental nurse matron at Birmingham Dental School. Prior to this, she was the principal dental nurse at The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust and was the lead dental nurse

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GDC Publish Report on Causes of Death During Fitness to Practise Investigations.

The GDC published a report on the 4th November relating to dental professionals who died while fitness to practise (ftp) concerns were being investigated or remediated. This is the first report of its kind Lord Harris notes that ” Every death is a tragedy, and when the data and what we are doing to improve

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gdc Publish the Dental Care Professionals Working Patterns – A very welcome report.

Follow the link to read the full report: https://www.gdc-uk.org/news-blogs/news/detail/2024/10/31/gdc-dcp-working-patterns-data?fbclid=IwY2xjawGU8ldleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHXKbCPWKh5fZtpG25l-XLmlEWBTfowICaevxJDhJRQUnC7Z5dgycHzTShw_aem_m4tfp7d20oIBmOSYOBVPaA The survey was conducted in conjunction with the 2024 ARF renewals. Out of the 75, 743 DCPs on the register, 43, 692 registrants responded, interestingly of the 43,692 who responded, 36,257 were dental nurses. None of this is new to the Society and the evidence is

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