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News Contracts. New pay, terms and conditions set to be introduced for salaried dentists Negotiations near end


Negotiations for the new contract for salaried dentists is finally nearing the end, according to the BDA’s recently retired national director for Scotland. Andrew Lamb told Scottish


Dental magazine that the associa- tion will be in a position to ballot its members on the new contract “in the next few months”. The current Chief Dental Officer


Margie Taylor wrote a report, published in 2006, about combining the community dental service and the salaried general dental service, and negotiations have been drag- ging on since that time. Andrew, who left his role at the


BDA at the beginning of November, said that getting the health boards


GDC is “out of touch with registrants” says BADN president


ANNUAL RETENTION FEE


The decision by the General Dental Council to freeze the Annual Reten- tion Fee (ARF) in 2013 has been criticised by the British Association for Dental Nurses (BADN). President Nicola Docherty, pictured, who is also a senior dental nurse tutor for NHS Education for Scotland, said that keeping the ARF at £120 shows that the GDC is “out of touch with residents”. She said: “We have supplied the GDC with detailed information on dental nurse salaries, showing that the £120 ARF causes considerable financial hardship to dental nurses. “We have also requested that the GDC lower the ARF for dental nurses to a fee more in line with salaries – instead of charging dental nurses the same ARF as hygienists


and therapists – and that they implement a special fee for those working part time.”


Nicola pointed to a recent BADN survey that found the majority of dental nurses are paid between £10,000 and £20,000 a year, compared to hygienists and therapists whose starting salary is £26,000.


She continued: “BADN has always supported, and continues to support, registration in principle, as being in the best interests of the patient.


“However, the GDC’s heavy- handed and insensitive implemen- tation, including the imposing of an unreasonable ARF, has alienated many dental nurses and must be rectified as soon as possible.”


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on side was one of the main reasons behind the delay. He said: “It took a long time for


the NHS employers in Scotland to come on board. We had very fruitful discussions with the Scot- tish Government, but without the employers, making substantial progress wasn’t going to happen. “However, in the last year or so,


the representatives of the employers – which is the management steering group made up of the chief execu- tives and finance directors of the NHS boards – have agreed to take part in tripartite talks with the BDA and the Scottish Government to try to take this forward.” Andrew and the CDO put out joint letters in July and October


this year on the new Scottish Public Dental Service stating, most recently, that they have formally entered into negotiations about new pay and terms and conditions of service package. However, with the end finally


“It took a long time for the NHS employers in Scotland to come on


board” Andrew Lamb


in sight, Andrew revealed that not being around when the deal is finally done is one of his biggest regrets in his nine years as national director. He said: “I am hopeful now that


within the next few months, we will see the end of this piece of work. I am just disappointed that I didn’t manage to see it through to fruition.”


® Read our in-depth interview with Andrew Lamb on page 22.


John Lennon’s tooth comes to Glasgow


Glasgow dentist Mark Skimming’s south side practice will welcome an unusual piece of music memorabilia in January, when John Lennon’s tooth comes to town.


Dentistry on the Square will play host to the John Lennon Tooth Tour on 15 January as part of a 15-practice UK tour to raise money for an oral cancer charity. Canadian dentist Michael ‘Yar’ Zuk, who also owns a porcelain crown and model of Elvis Presley’s teeth, bought John Lennon’s tooth for £19,500 at an auction last year. The Beatles front man gave the tooth to his housekeeper in the 1960s and her family recently made it available for auction. With the help of a jeweller from Beverly Hills, Zuk has turned the tooth into three John Lennon DNA pendants, with one of these pieces of jewellery being donated to charity to raise money in the fight against oral cancer.


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