Forensic
Dentistry
Date: 15/04/2009
Time: 19:30 - 22:00
Aims:
This course is desigend to give dentist a flavour of
how dental training can be used to help solve a host
of crimes. It will provide guidance to GDP's on how
they can contribute to this field and also update delegates
to the changes in the field of forensic dentistry
Speaker(s): Dr Freddie
Martin
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Clinical
Governance
Date: 06/05/2009
Time: 19:30 - 22:00
Aims:
In the changing world of Dentistry, what is the significance
of "Clinical Governance"?
By the end of
the course, participants should understand:
1. Who will
be monitoring Clinical Governance
2. What if Clinical Governance is not implemented
3. What penalty
4. How to ensure Clinical Governance - Is it worth it? |
Emergency
in the Dental Surgery - Do you know what to do?
Date:
11/05/2009
Date: 13/07/2009
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7:30pm - 9:30pm
7:00pm - 9:30pm
7:00pm - 9:30pm
7:00pm - 9:30pm
7:00pm - 9:30pm |
Aims:
To equip delegates in life support skills to include
(adult and paediatric) CPR and dealing with medical
emergencies and anaphylaxis in the dental surgery.
Speakers: Rachel
Gill and Team
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Effective
Complaints Handling
Date: 03/06/2009
Time: 7:30pm - 10:00pm
Aims:
This evening session is to consider the effects of complaints
on General Practitioners, an overview of the rules governing
complaints handling. It will also consider strategies
for avoiding complaints.
By the end of the course,
participants should understand:
1. The effects complaints
can have n a General Practice
2. The rules governing complaints handling
3. The importance of having a strategy for avoiding
complaints
Speaker(s): Mr. John
Ginty
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Endodontics
- What A Pain
Date: 03/06/2009
Time: 7:30pm - 10:00pm
Aims:
The course will upate delegates on:
1. Differential diagnosis
of Orofacial pain in prescribing Enddontics Treatment
- Diagnostic difficulties
2. Pain control during and after Endodontic treatment
3. The tooth which does not "settle"
By the end of the course,
participants should understand:
1. When pain indicates
Endodontics treatment
2. When to refer diagnostic problems of pain
3. When to use additional Anaesthetic Techniques
4. Why symptoms may persist and what to do if they do.
Speaker(s): Mr Andrew
Hyatt
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Your
Patients, Our Problems.
Date: 17/06/2009
Time: 7:30pm - 10:00pm Aims:
Experienced local Consultants will inform delegates
of how their patients are managed once thy are referred
to the secondary care hospital sector. This will be
through selected cases and an interactive exchange of
information. Which caese are best treated in practice
and which ones should be referred? There will aslo be
advice on how to get the best out of your local consultant.
Speaker(s): Dr. Nayeem
Ali, Mr. Simon Ash, Ms. Susan Cochrane and Mr. Peter
Hardee
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Update
on Dento-Legal Issues Date:
24/06/2009
Time: 7:30pm - 10:00pm
Aims:
This course is to assist practitioners and DCP's to
understand the current dento-legal issues relating to
general practice. To make the audience aware of rules
in practive and the importance of good records.
This course will cover:
1. Awareness of current dento-legal issues
2. Risks for dentists and DCP's incurrent environment
3. Awareness of risk management
4. Importance of good records
Speaker(s): Mr. Bryan
Westbury
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Making a successful
full dentures
Date: 08/07/2009
Time: 7:30pm - 10:00pm
Aims:
The aim of this course is to have an understanding of
the patients needs and give examples of few of the many
things that may prevent the patient achieving their
wish.
By the end of the course, particpants
should understand:
1. How to assess the diffreence between the patient's
needs and wants
2. How to identify at least 5 key reasons for failure
3. When to refer
4. There is rarely a single way to make dentures
Speaker: Mr. Richard
Welfare
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Infection
Control for GDP
Date: 22/07/2009 Time:
7:30pm - 10:00pm
Aims:
This evening session is to provide delegates with up
to date knowledge in all aspects of the control of infection
in dental surgeries.
By the end of the session,
participants will be able to:
- Recall the responsibilities and
concept of duty of care
- Understand the chain of infection
and modes of spread in dental practice
- Understand the relevant issues
to staff health, e.g. vaccinations, uniform
- Demonstrate good hand hygiene procedure
Speaker(s): Dr. Daniel
McAlonan
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Implants
for GDP and Support Staff
Date: 02/09/2009
Time: 19:30 - 22:00
Aims:
This course will look at what accounts actually show,
how often they should be produced and deciphering actual
sets of accounts, presented by a specialist bank manager
and dental accountant.
Speaker(s): Mr. Nadeem
Zafer
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Radiology
Update Date:
02/09/2009 Time: 7:30pm - 10:00pm
Aims:
To update delegates about the legislation as well as
best practice relating to the use and safety of dental
radiography in the Dental Practice.
By the end of the
course, participants will have a better understanding
of legal requirement about Radiation Protection and
the safety aspect for staff and patients
Speaker(s): Dr. Jimmy
Makdissi
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GDC and Regulation
Date: 16/09/2009
Time: 7:30pm - 10:00pm
Aims:
This lecture is aimed to give delegates an understanding
of the history of professional regulation, gain an understanding
of the developments of professional healthcare regulation
and gain an understanding of the main reforms in dental
regulation planned for the future.
Speaker: Mr. Duncan Rudkin
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Modern
Thoughts on Prescribing Date:
23/09/2009
Time: 7:30pm - 10:00pm
Aims:
This course aims to convey up-to-date information regarding
dental prescribing.
By the end of the
course, participants will:
1. Be updated in drug
interaction
2. Be able to prescribe appropriately
3. Be updated in prescribing safely, taking into account
patients medical history
Speaker(s): Manny
Vasant
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30 Ways to Save
Tax and Make More Money
Date: 30/09/2009
Time: 7:30pm - 10:00pm
Aims:
This course aims to help participants to understand
therunning of a Dental Practice from a business perspective.
Also review of Practice benchmarks and tax planning
for dentists.
By the end of the course participants
should understand:
1. Awareness of business risk and
defensive measure
2. Tax planning in a corporate and non-corporate structure
3. Profit improvement measures
4. Investment opportuntities with an eye to risk
Speaker: Mr. Flewitt John
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Building a Safer
Practice
Date: 03/09/2008
Time: 7:30pm - 10:00pm
Aims:
This course is designed to explore aspects of patient's
safety to outline the principles of minimising erorr
and to review medico-leagl aspects.
By the end of the course participants should understand:
1. How to introduce safety systems into practice
2. How to prevent error
3. How to protect themselves against litigation and
complaints
Speaker: Mr. Raj Rattan
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Evidence vs. Anecdote
in Periodontics - Good Science vs. Bad Science
Date: 28/10/2009
Time: 7:30pm - 10:00pm
Aims:
1. Distinguish between different levels of evidence
2. Investigate the evidence base for commonly-performed
procedures
3. Examine the nature of the diseased root surface and
different disinfection approaches
4. Consider when extraction of periodontically-involved
teeth is appropriate
By the end of the course, participants
should:
1. Be able to distinguish between different levls of
evidence
2. Understand the nature of the diseased root surface
3. Understand the difference between root planning and
debridement
4. Understand the unpredictability of assigning tooth
prognosis.
Speaker: Mr. Philip Ower
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Restorative
Challenges in GDP
Date: 11/11/2009
Time: 7:30pm - 10:00pm
Aims:
The course aims to to convey to delegates the pitfalls
in routing dentistry.
By the end of the course, participants
should:
1. Be able to identify suitable cases
2. Be able to identify teratment planning satisfactory
3. Be able to learn from mistakes
Speaker: Brian Millar
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The Old, the New and
the Impossible Management of Dental Trauma
Date: 25/11/2009
Time: 7:30pm - 10:00pm
Aims:
The aim of this evening session is to update on the
management of traumatised incisors in children
By the end of the session, delegates
should understand:
1. The new guidelines on management of traumatised incisors
2. The pulp responses to trauma
3. The new technique in management of traumatised incisors
Speaker: Dr. Ferranti Wong
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Crown
and Bridge Date:
13/01/2010
Time: 7:30pm - 10:00pm
Aims:
This course aims to update delegate on how to provide
high quality crown and bridge to a certain standard.
By the end of the
course, paticipants should:
1. Be able to select
appropriate patients to plan treatment accordingly.
2. Be able to weigh up the risk against benefits
3. Be able to become updated with the latest advbances
in Crown Bridges.
Speaker(s): Richard
Porter
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Management
and Monitoring of Periodontal Disease
Date: 27/01/2010
Time: 7:30pm - 10:00pm
Aims:
This course will cover the aetiolog and basic concepts
of managing diseases.
At the end of the lecture,
delegates will gain an understanding of:
1. How to diagnose, screen
and treat periodontal disease
2. Delegates should also be able to make a decision
when to refer.
Speaker: Mr. Peter Galgut
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Restoration
of Worn and Broken Dentition
Date: 10/02/2010
Time: 7:30pm - 10:00pm
Aims:
By the end of the course, delegates should:
1. Understand role of
occlusion in Restorative Practice
2. Be able to diagnose the problems
3. Identify cases which are within the treatment range
in any average GDP environment
4. Initiate preventative and treatment measures for
those cases
5. Be able to identify case thats need specialist referral
Participants will be
able to undertake many of these procedures in GDP setting
and refer those beyond the scope of ones ability.
Speaker: Mr. Manny Vasant
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Infection
Control
Date: 24/02/2010
Time: 7:30pm - 10:00pm
Aims:
This evening session is to provide delegates with up
to date knowledge in all aspects of the control of infection
in dental surgeries.
By the end of the course,
participants will be able to:
1. Recall the responsibilities
and concept of duty of care
2. Understand the chain of infection and modes of spread
in dental practice
3. Understand the relevant issues to staf health e.g.
vaccinations, uniform etc.
4. Demonstrate good hand hygiene practice
Speaker: Ms. Sandra Smith
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NHS
and Pension's Overview, Practice Finance and Financial
Protection
Date: 03/03/2010
Time: 7:30pm - 10:00pm
Aims:
1. Provide an overview of the NHS Pension Scheme and
recent changes
2. Give a brief of Personal Pension Plans available.
3. Provide some insight into available Practice Finance
and to explain the various contracts available for Personal
and Business Financial Protection.
By the end of the course,
participants should understand:
1. NHS/Pension Scheme/Personal Pension Options
2. Have a better understanding of avilable financing
for Practice purchase/refurbishment
3. Have a better understanding of Life, Critical Illness
and incapacity protection contracts , their variances
and uses.
Speaker(s): Mr Colin
Williams
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Complaints
and Litigation for the Dental Team
Date: 17/03/2010
Time: 7:30pm -10:00pm
Aims:
This presentation will provide an update on non-litigious
complaints procedures and describe the complex legal
processes surrounding litigation.
The level of both complaints and litigation anecdotally
is increasing. Complaints are one mechanism by which
we can be held accountable. It is unclear what the relationship
is between the complaints and litigation; both reflect
degrees of dissatisfaction and occasionally real harm
to the patient.
The GDC has published the "Principles of Complaints
Handling" and also recommends that dentists and
DCP's working in a clinical environment undertake CPD
in legal and ethical issues and complaints handling.
By the end of the course,
participants should understand:
1. Evaluate the size
of the problem of complaints and litigation
2. Explore the predisposing and precipitating factors
for complaints and litgation
3. Recognise the NHS and Social Care complaints procedures
4. Summarise the disciplinary procedures used by the
GDC
5. Describe the key elements of a robust complaints
handling process
6. Formulate and implement a system for managing complaints
in house
7. Outline the anatomy of a claim
8. Assess effective risk management tools for reducing
the likelihood of complaints and litigation.
Speaker: Dr. Juliana
Wright
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The
Drug Box and How to Use it
Date: 31/03/2010
Time: 7:30pm - 10:00pm
Aims:
This course will teach delegates to identify emergency
conditions and show delegates how to use emergency drugs
and equipment correctly
By the end of the session
delegates:
1. Will learn which drugs
to give in which situations
2. Will understand how to recognise life threatening
medical problems in the dental surgery.
Speaker(s): Dr. Jo Omar
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