The year ahead
EUAN THOMSON GDP, ROTHESAY
Q How will the dental landscape change in 2011? With the countdown to LDU compliance running, there will be a lot of practices struggling to comply and a sensitive approach will be needed by the health boards.
Q What would change/ improve your professional life? Implementation of ‘new’ combined health board and VT inspections will be put on hold for a year! Oral health Assessments will be intro- duced as an item of service in the SDR after much discus- sion over a ‘realistic’ fee! Less patients, more time!
Q What will give you sleepless nights? Mrs McClumpha on her second remake of full/full dentures, and the taxman!
Q What would get you cracking the champagne open? Joined-up thinking in terms of budget allocation for NHS dentistry especially in relation to decontamination.
Q Who’s the ‘player’ to watch this year? CDO, of course!
Q What’s your New Year’s resolution?
That people vote for a party at Holyrood with a different philosophy from the party at Westminster if we want to avoid the disastrous reforms which were introduced into dentistry in England.
“Implementation of ‘new’ combined health board and VT inspections will be put on hold for a year!”
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CRAIG THORN DF2, INVERURIE
Q How will the dental landscape change in 2011? The Childsmile programme looks set to be adopted across the salaried and community services in Grampian where I am currently working. The aim is to improve oral health in children by increasing the numbers registered with a dentist and by concentrating on effective prevention. Hopefully 2011 will see improved oral health in children.
Q What would
change/improve your professional life?
My dental foundation training has already improved my skills and confidence in working with special needs patients and stroppy
teenagers. I’m about to start a six-month rotation in the ARI which I hope will do the same for my oral surgery.
Q What will give you sleepless nights?
Probably something involving paperwork or red tape.
Q What would get you crack- ing the champagne open? Signing off on a long, complicated prior approval case always earns me an extra biscuit.
Q Who’s the player to watch this year?
Mike Gow – the Derren Brown of Dentistry.
Q What’s your New Year’s resolution?
To get back in the swimming pool.
LEAD DCP TUTOR - SOUTH EAST
Q How will the dental landscape change in 2011? Introduction of the GDC’s Scope of Practice documentation means that DCPs may be even more involved in direct patient care with additional skills training for these groups being even more in demand.
Q What would change/improve your professional life?
As a practising DCP (oral health educator), a greater emphasis should be put on the impor- tance of home care to patients. Educating patients to look after what they have had done to them is paramount. Ensuring that they value the treatment. In my role as a lead DCP tutor, I’d like to see DCPs embracing the concept of their newly raised professional status; taking own- ership for their own continuing professional development.
Q What will give you sleepless nights? DCPs who seek employment without being registered.
Q What would get you cracking the champagne open? GDC putting a timescale on students ‘in training’.
Q Who’s the player to watch this year? Lee Westwood. He needs a couple of nice veneers on his upper laterals!
Q What’s your New Year’s resolution? Lose a stone, play lots of golf and read Scottish Dental mag!
LIZ HUTCHISON, NES SCOTLAND
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