So here I am at week three of the Talking Points tour. It has been amazing to be part of it. Although I have loved the energy of travelling, I am looking forward to sleeping in my own bed for a while.
The BDA starts on Thursday 19 just as I finish. For the sake of sanity, and my marriage, I won't be there in Manchester but look forward to hearing the highlights through twitter and Facebook.
One of the topics that is being visited in several forms at the BDA, is that of access to dental services and resources.Things are changing and a lot of thought has gone into where we should be heading as a profession. If I were to attend I would be watching Sue Gregory, who has her finger firmly on the pulse of dentistry, Iain Chapple, as I do love a bit of perio, Soren Holm as I feel I need to revisit ethics and law to be sure I am doing everything possible, and finally the Friday session at 14.00 Chaired by Stephen Lambert Humble. This session see a panel representing GDPs and DCPs talk about how to utilise your team.
As this is in essence my bread and butter, I would very much like to hear the thoughts of the panel about the future of teamwork, triage systems and a prescribing nurse type scenario in dentistry. Even if they limit themselves to only talking about the hear and now, getting the message out about how you can utilise the team can only be a good thing. I have friends taking notes for me and look forward to hearing how the whole conference went.
I hope they will mention the review of Standards and Scope of Practice the GDC us undertaking just now and how we can all have a positive input by visiting www.gdc-uk.org and filling in the questionnaire about standards and having our say on scope of practice too.
Keep on keeping on
Mhari
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