From those great people at Bridge2Aid Exciting Opportunities in Mwanza! As you may know, we run a Dental Clinic in Mwanza, Hope Dental Centre (HDC). The profits of the Clinic help to fund the work we do in training medical officers in Emergency Dentistry in Tanzania. It’s becoming very clear early into this new yearContinue reading “Exciting Opportunities in Mwanza!”
Author Archives: Alun Rees
“COPDEND claims success despite widespread concerns” says GDPUK
The new system for recruiting Dental Foundation Trainees is a disgrace, putting final year students through examinations that are without test and trial is at best ill judged. Yet again a patrician attitude of “we know best” is obvious to see. For one sixth of all final year students to be put in a positionContinue reading ““COPDEND claims success despite widespread concerns” says GDPUK”
The Monday Morning Quote #151
“On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, “Is it safe?” Expediency asks the question, “Is it politic?” And Vanity comes along and asks the question, “Is it popular?” But Conscience asks the question “Is it right?” And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular,Continue reading “The Monday Morning Quote #151”
Revealed: How CQC registration is running over budget and has failed dozens of dental practices
From The Pulse Revealed: How CQC registration is running over budget and has failed dozens of dental practices By Andrew McNicoll | 20 Jan 2012 Exclusive: More than 30 dental practices and an unknown number of private GP practices have failed to secure registration with the Care Quality Commission, in the first sign that regulationContinue reading “Revealed: How CQC registration is running over budget and has failed dozens of dental practices”
The Monday Morning Quote #149
“Your ability to adapt, be flexible and deal with the unexpected is one of the most powerful assets you possess.” David Bowie
The Monday Morning Quote #150
“The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what pays for it – what it costs us.” Friedrich Nietzsche
Northern Ireland’s take on the IOTN
From the BDA newsdesk: 4.0 IOTN score for orthodontic care in NI proposed Proposals to introduce a threshold of 4.0 on the Index of Treatment Need (IOTN) for entitlement to orthodontic care for children in Northern Ireland are reported by BBC Online. Parents whose children are not assessed at such a level, but nonetheless wishContinue reading “Northern Ireland’s take on the IOTN”
The Monday Morning Quote #148
“A leader is not good because they’re right. They’re good because they’re willing to learn and to trust.” General Stanley McChrystal
“HMRC business record checks condemned” more interference?
If you’re Vodafone or Goldman Sachs it’s fine to do half a billion pound deals with Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs but if you’re small enough to be picked upon and harried, look out. HMRC has faced criticism over its planned business record checks. From April this year, HMRC plans to spot-check 20,000 firms’ businessContinue reading ““HMRC business record checks condemned” more interference?”
A f*ree textbook of skin cancer and its mimics.
Aimed at medical students, doctors trying to get (re) acquainted with dermatology and other paramedical staff this new on-line text book is worth investigating by dentists and their teams. Dentists are in the enviable but responsible position of seeing our patients regularly and are therefore better placed to observe changes of the head and neckContinue reading “A f*ree textbook of skin cancer and its mimics.”
The Incisal Edge 