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PILOT AIMS TO ORAL CANCER
SUPPORT DENTISTS DETECTION
Deputy CDO With cases of oral
introduces a pilot cancer increasing,
project that aims to dentists have a crucial
28 keep dentists away 54 role to play in the early
from the GDC detection of the disease
DENTISTRY’S
NORTHERN STAR
This is another
example of the BDA
Kirsty Rodger, winner
in London stepping of the DCP Star award 46
at the Scottish Dental
in to rule over 78 Awards, talks about her
Scottish committees career so far
and it is exactly why
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Editorial
WITH BRUCE OXLEY, EDITOR
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RELIEVING
hatting with dentists at compared to an assessment it carried out
the recent Scottish Dental in 2013/14.
Show, it was striking just Despite the GDC’s assurances that it
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how often the conversation THE PRESSURE is working harder than ever to get its own
turned to the GDC and the processes right, is it really any wonder then
pressure under which many practitioners feel that that BDA asks how bad it must get
they are now working. Even the remotest ON DENTISTS before someone intervenes?
possibility of having to face a fitness to Clearly, government will not intervene
practise hearing is enough to strike fear into directly with GDC business. But the
the heart of the most skilled and ethical of initiative taken by deputy chief dental officer
professionals. Tom Ferris and his colleagues, and which is
Government-led pilot
One highly respected dentist, renowned reported in this issue of Scottish Dental, is
for his dedication and commitment to the aims to help dentists to be warmly welcomed. They have come
highest possible standards of patient care, up with a 10-point check list through which
summed it up when he said: “The thought steer clear of the GDC dentists can benchmark their own, and their
of making even the smallest mistake that practice’s, performance.
might lead to a complaint to the GDC ramps
up the pressure on me every time I walk into The initiative taken
my practice. It is like having this huge weight by deputy chief dental
on your shoulders. We are all human and
officer Tom Ferris and
mistakes will happen. But to live under this The ever increasing anger and
pressure should not be acceptable.” resentment directed towards the GDC by his colleagues, is to be
Of course it is essential to have a the profession is simply fuelled this month warmly welcomed
regulator. There can be no argument with the news that the dental regulator came
about that. Patients must be protected bottom of a list of nine similar bodies whose Ferris is at pains to point out that this is
and the profession must be governed. standards were examined by the Professional not about discipline. This is about education,
But consistently, practitioners are arguing Standards Authority (PSA). prevention and supporting dentists to keep
that far too many cases involving minor, The PSA highlights that the GDC failed them out the clutches of the GDC.
often administrative, breaches of the strict to meet a total of seven of its standards The project is only at the pilot stage and
professional guidelines are being brought of good regulation. On fitness to practise, is being trialled in just four health board
before the all-powerful disciplinary the GDC fully met only one of the 10 areas. But the potential is huge.
committees where entire careers, standards, and failed to meet six others, It is a bold step and one that the
professional reputations and indeed representing what the PSA describes as profession should applaud and give its
livelihoods are at stake. a significant decline in its performance full support to… for everyone’s sake.
WE COULDN’T HAVE DONE IT WITHOUT...
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TOM FERRIS GRAHAM OGDEN STEVE BONSOR ADRIAN STEWART
(ON THE NEW GOVERNMENT PILOT) (ON ORAL CANCER DETECTION) (ON MATERIALS SELECTION) (ON ENDODNOTICS)
Deputy CDO Tom Ferris formed Professor Graham Ogden is a Steve Bonsor is an online tutor on the Queen’s University Belfast graduate
the working group for the ‘Quality professor of oral surgery and MSc in Primary Dental Care at the EDI Adrian Stewart works in practice
and Improvement and Supporting honorary consultant at Dundee as well as lecturing on applied dental limited to endodontics in Edinburgh
Better Practice’ pilot. Dental Hospital and School. materials at Aberdeen Dental School. and Northern Ireland.
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HAVING HIS SAY
Arthur Dent is a practising
NHS dentist in Scotland
[email protected]
APPROPRIATE
REMUNERATION
How do we follow the SDCEP guidelines, being
paid according to the SDR and still manage to
run a business? Something’s got to give
he SDCEP guidelines for We need an SDR
Prevention and Treatment
which is fit for modern
of Periodontal Disease
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in Primary Care were purposes, and allows us
published in June 2014. to carry out the SDCEP
These are a set of excellent, well researched
guidelines properly, and
and pragmatic guidelines which we should
all follow. with fair remuneration
The Statement of Dental Remuneration
(SDR) makes this impossible to achieve
without either incurring further financial periodontal therapy will require longer
losses, or breaking the rules. appointments than those receiving dental
SDCEP states that we should “ensure prophylaxis”.
that full mouth periodontal charting is I have supposed that this refers to the
performed annually in patients who scored standard 10A, fee for which we receive
BPE 4 in any sextant at baseline and in £13.45. It is commonly thought that it costs
patients who scored 3 in more than one £80-100 per hour to run a dental surgery –
sextant at baseline”. The SDR makes it quite even with our (reduced) allowances it is very
clear that a 1C exam may only be claimed hard to see how it can be cost effective to
once every 24 calendar months. This would do this. The guidelines also ask for a recall
mean 20 minutes spent annually on pocket interval of two to six months in the first year
charting and other baseline indices without – but we are unable to recall more frequently
remuneration. than every three months.
ABOVE: guidelines no longer achievable
For our 1A exam fee of £8.60, SDCEP We need an SDR which is fit for modern
also expects us to provide advice on purposes, one which allows us to carry out
smoking cessation, alcohol, healthy eating the SDCEP guidelines properly and with
and plaque control at the recall appointment. advice states (6.1) that “sufficient time is fair remuneration. Patients deserve to have
We still need to carry out an extra-oral and required at each recall appointment to periodontal treatment and maintenance
intra-oral examination of soft tissues and carry out long-term maintenance effectively carried out properly. And we deserve
our dental examination for this fee. The and patients undergoing supportive to be remunerated appropriately.
CORRECTION the BDA didn’t submit separate research evidence for Scotland at the DDRB In relation to the statement regarding a
on Scotland to the DDRB. The BDA hearing in London. 400 per cent increase in ticket prices, the
insist that it did in fact submit separate The author also referred to author was referring to the prices when
The British Dental Association has raised research which is formulated by SDPC’s redundancies in Scotland. We would the event was held in Dunblane. However,
some issues concerning Arthur Dent’s remuneration committee and validated by like to clarify that this was a voluntary both the author and Scottish Dental
previous article (p7, May 2015), which we the BDA. In addition to written evidence, redundancy and there is no evidence that magazine acknowledge that the statement
wish to clarify. the chair of SDPC, Scottish Council and the loss of the post has affected the ability was inaccurate and misleading, and we
In paragraph four, the author stated that national director of BDA Scotland give oral of elected members to do their work. apologise for any inconvenience caused.
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HOT OFF THE PRESS: THE LATEST NEWS FOR DENTAL PROFESSIONALS IN FOCUS
The show was a sell-out, registrations
PAGE
38 were well up on last year and a record
number of people attended the awards
ALAN RAMSAY
RISK MANAGEMENT School, will present two
sessions: the dry mouth
PROJECT TO
and sensory changes in
CUT ‘FITNESS TO the orofacial region and
managing mucosal disease
PRACTISE’ CASES
in primary care.
The government is taking Among the others
action in an attempt to cut the presenting will be consultant
number of Scots dentists being oral and maxillofacial surgeon
brought unnecessarily before Nayeem Ali whi will present
GDC disciplinary committees. on managing the temporo-
The chief dental officer’s mandibular joint (TMJ) and
office has launched a new pilot facial pain.
project that aims to provide And Jeremy Rees,
practitioners with a 10-point consultant restorative dentist,
checklist against which Cardiff Dental School, will
they can benchmark their give two sessions: food, drink
own performance and so and dental erosion; and the
minimise risk. composite Dahl approach.
The pilot comes at a time Full programme, booking
of soaring levels of concern information and speaker
among dentists in Scotland biographies are available at:
about the potential of being www.bda.org/scottishscientific
hauled before the Fitness to
Practise committees. PRACTICE ACQUISITIONS
It is being led by deputy
DENTAL GROUP
CDO Tom Ferris, who told
Scottish Dental magazine: TAKEOVER
“This is absolutely about
supporting practices and A Falkirk-based dental
allowing dentists to see their group has secured a
own performance and their ABOVE: Deputy CDO Tom Ferris is leading the charge on dentist performance £1.2 million deal to take over
practice’s performance. It will two Edinburgh dental practices
also enable them to benchmark and set its sights on doubling
their performance and help in size by 2020.
them to improve. quality improvement group CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION BeDental, which already
“It is also about assisting was formed to take the has a practice in Falkirk, as well
LEADING LIGHTS
a practice that is having project further. as Moodiesburn and Possilpark
problems and helping The group, chaired by May ON THE PODIUM in Glasgow, has bought over
individual clinicians at a very Hendry, dental practice adviser neighbouring practices Ocean
early stage. None of this is at NHS Ayrshire and Arran, A number of Scotland’s Drive Dental Practice and
disciplinary at all.” identified 10 key indicators leading dental clinicians are Vitaliteeth Dental Spa in Leith.
The pilot, which is initially covering every aspect of to be among the speakers at The two practices bring
being trialed by four NHS clinical practice on a clinician this year’s Scottish Scientific more than 13,000 patients
boards – Ayrshire and Arran, and practice level. Conference and Exhibition. to the group, which is led by
Dumfries and Galloway, NHS National Services The event, sponsored by principal dentist and clinical
Lothian and Forth Valley – is Scotland was commissioned MDDUS, will take place on director Atif Bashir. He said:
a combination of the Scottish to build an online ‘dashboard’ 4 September 2015 at Glasgow’s “We’re excited to be growing
Government’s quality strategy to bring together and display Crowne Plaza Hotel. and having not one, but two
and a project looking into all the information to support It will include a special practices in Edinburgh is a
supporting better practice dentists in the pilot areas. address by the Chief Dental huge step forward for us.
that was being carried out by The pilot will be assessed Officer for Scotland, Margie “At both Ocean Dental
speciality trainee in dental on a regular basis and Taylor, who will present on and Vitaliteeth, we have
public health Emma O’Keefe. progress will be reported the current challenges facing overhauled the entire
Ferris took the proposal to the relevant boards and dentistry in Scotland. operation. Quite simply, it is
to Chief Dental Officer committees involved. Alexander Crighton, about putting the needs and
(CDO) Margie Taylor, and Turn to page 28 for a closer honorary clinical senior wellbeing of patients at the
a sub-group of the CDO’s look at the pilot lecturer at Glasgow Dental heart of everything we do.”
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