News New facility is first class Corporates to merge
Training.Outreach centre to house Glasgow students
A brand new outreach dental facility in Coatbridge is providing first class treatment for patients who don’t have a dentist – and first class training for the students who are treating them. The new facility is based in the £18million Buchanan Centre, a purpose-built four- storey building in the town centre that houses health and council services, including two independent contractor dental practices with nine chairs in total. In the outreach facility there
are 14 mini treatment areas (or PODs) that are used by ten final year dental students from
Students at the new outreach facility
Glasgow Dental School, and four final year hygiene/ therapy students. Mike Devine is Director of NHS Lanarkshire Salaried Primary Care Dental Services, and is delighted with the early success of the new centre. “We visited several other centres which were already
open to see what we could learn from them. It’s fair to say we learned a lot, and cherry- picked the very best bits for our new centre. “We’ve been very well supported by NES, and by David Watson, the Senior Clinical University Teacher for Dental Outreach.”
The merger of Integrated Dental Holdings (IDH) and Associated Dental Practices (ADP) will see the new body control nearly 450 practices and over 3.5 million patients. Asset management company The Carlyle Group announced at the end of January that they had acquired IDHfrom Bank of America Merrill Lynch Capital Partners and plan to merge the business with ADP in
partnership with private equity firm Palamon Capital Partners. Carlyle will hold a majority of the new entity and Palamon will share joint governance. The new owners say they will grow the business through “significant investment, diversification of services and acquisitions”.
6 Scottish Dental magazine
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