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Keep the flu away from you!

Dental nurses, are you involved in the fight against the further spread of the pandemic influenza H1N1 (swine flu)? Are you protecting yourselves, your families

Time for associates to break free?

Back in August, an article appeared in the GP magazine Pulse about salaried GPs considering splitting from British Medical Association (BMA). They threatened to go

Beyond the standard

ough times both require and produce outstanding leaders. Winston Churchill in WWII and Nelson Mandela overseeing the birth of a post-apartheid South Africa are two

Ten ways to defuse incidents

A comprehensive training programme is the most effective means of preparing staff to address disruptive behaviour or assaults. There are, however, some basic steps that

High-flying hygiene

I’m living on station at RAF Cranwell [in Sleaford, Lincolnshire] so I’m in surgery within 10 minutes. I was an aircraft technician, but I’d been

Genetically modified

Before Facebook and the internet, there was Radar. I should explain, perhaps, that I am referring here not to the electronic wizardry that gave the

Managing redundancy

Which of us hasn’t quietly consulted the Business Link website for information about making an employee redundant? Or read, with more than usual interest, the

Simplifying the complex

The difference between good results and great results is often directly related to the ability to bring all the disciplines in dentistry together for the

Cutting it out

There has long been an inherent flaw in most of the ways in which dentists are remunerated for their services. Many of them are barking

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