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The British Dental Association (BDA) has warned that the suspension of Quality Improvement Scheme grants for 2010-2011 in Northern Ireland will damage the ability of Northern Ireland's dentists to address their priorities for quality improvement in their practices.
Date: 08/07/2010
The BDA’s leaders in Northern Ireland have branded today’s announcement on the funding of Health Service for dentistry in Northern Ireland as ‘unrealistic’.
Date: 12/08/2010
On 10 March 2010 the Doctors' and Dentists' Review Body (DDRB) published its annual recommendations on pay for 2010-2011 for dentists, including those working in Northern Ireland. The Northern Ireland DDRB 10-11 Report Summary is now available.
Peter Crooks, a general dental practitioner (GDP) in Ballymena, has been elected as the new Chair of the Northern Ireland Dental Practice Committee (NIDPC).
Having good oral health, a sense of wellbeing and good general health should be important to everyone in Northern Ireland and something that government strives to continuously improve.
Northern Ireland ... by mouth is quarterly and aimed at members in Northern Ireland.
DHSSPS NI in common with Department of Health England have recently issued HTM 01-05 which is intended to progressively raise the quality of decontamination work in primary care dental services by covering the decontamination of reusable instruments within dental facilities. While DHSSPS largely accept the HTM 01-05 guidance on decontamination, the following amendments to HTM 01-05 apply in Northern Ireland
The British Dental Association (BDA) in Northern Ireland has called for a full public apology after it emerged that dentists health service incomes were vastly exaggerated in figures released following a freedom of information request.
BDA Northern Ireland represents dentists and dental students in Northern Ireland alongside staff in BDA, 64 Wimpole Street, London. BDA Northern Ireland supports and advises dentists working in all branches of dentistry.
Northern Ireland Consultation & Responses
The latest versions of the BDA NHS fees guides are available here. The DDRB uplift for Scotland for 2010/11 has still to be agreed between the BDA and the Scottish Government. Talks are still ongoing and the BDA fees guide will be prepared once they have concluded.
Reacting to earnings and expenses statistics for dentists in Northern Ireland published today by the NHS Information Centre, BDA Northern Ireland Director Claudette Christie said:
“The report recognises that dentistry operates in a unique context in Northern Ireland and that there are variations in pay. In Northern Ireland dentists are rewarded for the amount of work they do and the figures show that dentists are working very hard to care for their patients. Indeed, we know that in the last year alone they have provided more than 1.4 million fillings and cared for nearly 900,000 patients in the Health Service."
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