Top tips to avoid recruitment cavities
2024-08-07
Leo Briggs and Alexandra Addington explain what practice owners need to know when beginning the recruitment process for new staff members. Before new recruits walk
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Catch up with this week’s dental news – 6 July 2024
2024-07-06
It’s been a busy week in the world of dental news. Missed the headlines? Here’s what’s happened over the past seven days… Labour win the
How to manage patient expectations in the dental practice
2024-07-06
Lesley Taylor explains how managing patient expectations can be hugely important in achieving a satisfactory outcome. Ideally, dental professionals and patients should both be on
General election 2024: John Makin calls for ‘measured solutions’ in dentistry
2024-07-03
John Makin, head of the DDU, explains some of the take away points of this election and what he would like to see in the
General election 2024: dental professionals call for wellbeing support in manifestos
2024-06-17
A survey found that 96% of respondents wanted political parties to include plans for health and wellbeing support for the dental workforce in their manifestos.
‘Significant risk to patients’: dental profession reacts to provisional registration plans
2024-05-20
The profession has warned that plans for the provisional registration of overseas dentists poses ‘significant risk’ to patients – as well as an increased workload
Challenges and opportunities in the dental recovery plan
2024-04-17
John Makin analyses the challenges and opportunities posed by recently announced changes to dental regulation and policy as a result of the dental recovery plan.
Over one third of dental helpline callers are newly qualified dentists looking to leave
2024-03-26
Over a third of calls to the Confidental helpline service come from dentists who have qualified in the last five years and are thinking about
Round the clock dento-legal advice – reasons to join the DDU
2024-03-19
Jo-Anne Taylor, dento-legal adviser at the Dental Defence Union (DDU), shares some reasons why young dentists should choose the DDU at the beginning of their
How to deal with inappropriate patient behaviour
2024-02-15
A DDU survey found that 11% of dental professionals had concerns about gifts given by patients, including Valentine’s cards and flowers. The Dental Defence Union
Calls for GDC to retain in-person hearings
2024-01-26
Holding all GDC hearings remotely would disadvantage certain dental professionals undergoing a fitness to practise investigation, says the Dental Defence Union (DDU). The DDU made
GDC’s failure to meet all standards of good regulation ‘not good enough’
2024-01-02
Calls have been made for the General Dental Council (GDC) to take action to reduce the amount of time taken to process fitness to practise