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News Plans under way for new Hunter Health Centre
The outline business case for a proposed £22 million health centre in East Kilbride, which will include a general dental practice among its facilities,
has been approved.
The Hunter Health Centre will replace the current centre in a move described by NHS Lanark- shire chief executive, Ian Ross,
as “an exciting development that will offer premises for a wide range of local services”. The next part of the process is submitting a full business
case for government approval. The new centre is expected to be open by summer 2015, the first of three proposed centres of this kind in East Kilbride.
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LDC CONFERENCE
Glasgow students take to the streets
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tudents from Glasgow Dental School took to the streets recently to spread the oral
health message as part of National Smile Month. Eight student volunteers
and senior lecturer Dr David Conway gave up their time during the exam period to set up a stall on Buchanan Street in the shadow of Donald Dewar in an attempt to speak to members of the public. In a little over three hours they spoke with more than 550 people and handed out tooth- paste, toothbrushes and other freebies courtesy of GSK, Oral-B and TePe. The following day they
attended an event at the Scot- tish Qualifications Authority (SQA) on Robertson Street where they dispensed advice and handed out supplies to SQA staff.
National Smile Month. Dental students spread the message to the public
The SQA event came about
as a result of a phone call from Maria Khoudary, adminis- trator involved with health and wellbeing campaigns at SQA. She said: “One of our volunteers alerted us to National Smile Month earlier in the year and we decided it would be a good opportunity to highlight the importance of good oral health to our colleagues. “We were very fortunate to
get the dental students in to visit our staff. The informa- tion session they delivered was very popular and I know everyone who attended found it very useful.” Speaking about the Buchanan Street afternoon Steph O’Raw, a fourth-year student at Glasgow Dental
School, said: “It was quite eye- opening to be honest. Some people came up who were quite clued up, while there were others who didn’t really know that they should be brushing their teeth or what type of toothpaste to use.” And John McQueen, third-
year student, said: “I felt that the majority of people that we spoke to would benefit from it in some way. One of the most common things we came across was people not being registered. “We had a list of all the NHS
practices in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde so we could give them the phone number of their nearest practice so they could get in contact and hopefully get registered.”
A motion calling for an independent Scottish General Dental Council was tabled and passed at the recent Scottish LDC Conference in Stirling. The motion was proposed by Robert Sweeney, a member of the conference’s agenda committee, and was seen as a direct result of the direct access decision by the GDC. The proposal stated that it was felt that the written submission of the BDA and the voices of the profession had been drowned out by the consumerist lobby. It was also thought that the change to a GDC consisting of 12 appointed members, with only six dental profes- sionals, further dilutes the perceived future direction of the GDC.
The conference, which took place at the Stirling Management Centre at the University of Stirling, was attended by more than 70 delegates and guests. The two main speakers were Kevin O’Brien, chair of the GDC and Hew Mathewson, CBE, chair of the SDPB. At the end of the event, the chain of office was passed from Laura Milby to Jeff Ellis who becomes chair of conference for two years, with Jacqueline Frederick as chair-elect.
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