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Celebrating 25 years in business
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Dental equipment company DP Medical is celebrating 25 years since founder Douglas Pitman started the business on the ethos that “quality and service was paramount in the niche markets in which it operates”.
The company specialises in providing a wide range of equipment to dentistry and many other surgical speci- alities including ENT, gynae- cology, neurosurgery, plastic surgery, oral/maxillofacial, veterinary, and forensic. DP Medical equipment is now used throughout the UK and Ireland, in most hospitals and in thousands of clinics and surgeries. Products from leading manufacturers worldwide are supplied on an exclusive basis, with the company also producing some of its own products. Founder and managing director Douglas Pitman said: “We are continually seeking to provide quality products to the customers we serve in order to increase treatment possibilities and advance user techniques. We are proud to be associated with many leading UK and Irish clinicians.”
Awards. Retired Bellshill practitioner David Collington was among the recipients in the Queen’s New Year Honours List
Glasgow dentist gets new year royal recognition
Recently-retired Glasgow GDP David Collington was among five dental profes- sionals to receive awards in the Queen’s New Year Honours List.
A former partner at North Road Dental Practice in Bellshill, David is to receive an MBE for services to dentistry.
David, who retired in June last year, qualified in 1974 from Glasgow and spent his entire career in general practice in the NHS. He explained that the honour came as a great surprise when the letter came through the door late last year: “I was totally stunned to be honest. They sent a letter out about six weeks before New Year and I have to say I was just totally stunned when I read that I was to get this award for services to a profession that I have loved and felt privileged to be part of. “I’m delighted to accept this award but if it wasn’t for the support, help and advice from my family, my dedicated staff, all of my colleagues and not least my loyal patients, this could never have happened.” David worked as a visiting GDP at Glasgow Dental Hospital for 25 years and served on
“I am stunned to get this award for services to a profession I have
loved to be part of” David Collington, MBE
several dental committees over the years, in particular the Lanarkshire Dental Audit Committee.
Other Scottish recipients of honours included a CBE for Professor Jimmy Steele, Dundee graduate, dean of Newcastle Dental School and author of the Steele Review of NHS Dentistry in 2009. Former president of the British Association of Dental Nurses Angie McBain, origi- nally from Ayrshire but now working as a dental nurse tutor in Luton, also received an MBE.
Student debt could deter students from dentistry A new report from the British
Dental Association (BDA) has warned dental students face a “cocktail of spiralling levels of debt”. The Student Futures report also highlights that many students are unsure about the financial support available to them as well as harbouring concerns about changing career
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pathways. The report warns that these uncertainties could deter potential students, unwilling or unable to take on the potential financial burden, from applying for dental courses.
Dr Martin Nimmo, the Chair of the BDA’s Young Dentists and Student committees, said: “Many dental students already incur significant debts
completing their studies. The size of these debts alone may be prohibitive to some potential candidates, whose concerns about their personal finances may be deterring them from applying for dental courses. Uncertainty about funding arrangements and career pros- pects make decisions about whether to apply for dental
courses even harder.
“If the government is serious about its very laudable Fair Access to the Professions agenda, then it must think seriously about these issues and seek to provide certainty by finalising arrangements for NHS bursaries to ease concerns about how studies can be funded.”
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