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At last there is a growing movement in healthcare, in general, to rely less on goals and targets as a way of measuring success and to start asking about the…

It was recently announced that The General Dental Council (GDC) has successfully prosecuted another non-registrant for unlawfully practising dentistry, namely tooth whitening.  On 20 December 2013 Hayley Wilding was found…

Most of you won’t remember the old war-time poster that stated (under a wall sprouting an ear) ‘WARNING – Walls Have Ears – be careful what you say!’  Obviously, this…

The new GDC Standards state for the first time that we ‘must’ listen to our patients.  As well as listening, we should be actively encouraging communication.   Successful communication is the…

For anyone unaware, more than 100 family dentists have signed a letter to the Telegraph which accuses Ministers of hiding the “rotten truth” about the “compromised and mismanaged” system of…

As Colonel ‘Hannibal’ Smith said “I love it when a plan comes together”.  For this to happen, one needs a plan in the first place!  If we were going to…

Here we go again! At the beginning of 2013, my resolutions remained intact for at least a week which I actually thought was pretty good going. I stayed off sticky…

Dentists have heard it before! Every year, at this same time, patients appear with a strange affliction. You all know where I`m going with this. Typically, it starts with us…