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Dental Workforce
Welcome to the Dental Workforce page. This page covers issues around the performance management, development, training and pay for the dental team, including dentists and dental care professionals (DCPs).
Contents
- Workforce Management
- Dental Practice Advisors
- Training and Education
- Pay
- Workforce Development
- Links to other organisati
Workforce Management
NEW! Whistleblowing
Barking and Dagenham PCT have provided a copy of their Whistleblowing Policy to share with the rest of the NHS. The policy is available for download here.
Dental Practice Advisers
NEW! Job description
The National Association of Dental Advisors (NADA) has produced a template job description for a dental practice advisor. The document is available for download here.
Training and Education
Vocational Training (VT)
Vocational Training is the training new dental graduates receive, working on a salaried basis in a clinical setting. VT is managed by the Committee of Postgraduate Dental Deans and Directors (COPDEND) on a regional basis. For more information, including Deanery contact details, click here to visit the COPDEND website.
DH Factsheet: Competency training for dentists who have not undertaken vocational training
DH have produced a factsheet providing guidance on the application of provisions within the NHS (Performer Lists) Regulations to dentists who have not completed vocational training but have gained experience of providing primary care services as a dentist. (Many of these dentists will be from countries outside the European Economic Area who have passed the General Dental Council's International Qualifying Examination or Overseas Registration Examination.)
To read the factsheet in full, click here
Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
DCPs and Dentists are required to undertake CPD as part of their registration with the General Dental Council (GDC). The CPD cycle runs over a five year period, starting on different dates depending on the date of the dentist or DCP's registration with the GDC. Dentists must undertake a minimum of 250 hours of CPD (of which 75 hours must be verifiable CPD) over the five year cycle. DCPs must undertake a minimu of 150 hours of CPD (of which 50 hour must be verifiable CPD). More information can be obtained from the GDC website (click here to visit the GDC website).
The Department of Health issued the following factsheets relating to CPD:
- Download Factsheet 12: Travel and Subsistence for Dentists Undertaking Verifiable CPD - Delegation of Payments to PCTs
- Download Factsheet 12 Annex: certificate of attendance/claim for travel/subsistence expenses for section 63 and vocational training course
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Pay
Statements of Financial Entitlements
Access the Statements of Financial Entitlements for PDS and GDS. These were updated on 27 April 2006 to reflect the DDRB uplift for 06/07.
Download the claim form for dentists claiming payments under the SFE
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Workforce Development
Dental Workforce resource pack
Produced by National Workforce Projects, this six step resource pack has been produced to aid the development of the dental workforce in response to local population needs. It sets out to provide an evidence based and effective model that can be adopted by any NHS or partner health and social care organisation
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Links to other organisations
National Clinical Assessment Service
The National Clinical Assessment Service (NCAS), part of the National Patient Safety Agency, has been commissioned to undertake assessments of dentists' performance by the GDC as part of the Council's new procedures to tackle poor performance in dentistry.
Download the NCAS Service to GDC Briefing paper here
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