31/12/2024
🦷 🗞️ 📅 Dentistry’s 2024 round up 🦷🗞️📅
We’re back with our annual round up of the biggest dental headlines of the year. From ORE changes to the NHS dental recovery plan progress – check out 2024’s top dental stories below.
https://dentistry.co.uk/2024/12/31/dentistrys-2024-round-up/
🏥‘Not feasible nor justifiable’ – European Parliament votes to ban dental amalgam from 2025
🏥GDC ‘wrong and unjust’ in approach to suspension orders, court rules
International dentists could practise without passing overseas registration exam
🇬🇧 NHS dental recovery plan – what does it say?
🏥 Coroner calls on GDC to take action to prevent future deaths in dentistry
💼 New powers granted to dental therapists and hygienists, government announces
🇬🇧 Jason Wong announced as England’s new chief dental officer
🎓 Which university ranked highest for dentistry in 2024?
🏥GDC welcomes provisional registration for overseas dentists but warns of ‘significant costs’
🇬🇧 Compulsory NHS tie-in for new dentists under consideration
🐀 Tooth regrowth medicine successful in animal trials
🇬🇧 General election 2024: what did each party promise for dentistry?
🇬🇧 What does a Labour government mean for dentistry?
🚭 Smoking ban to go ahead, government confirms
🌎 New path for overseas dentists approved by GDC
🤖 ‘Robot dentist’ completes first dental procedure
🏥 Lord Darzi NHS report: ‘urgent action needed’ on NHS dental contract
🏥 GDC announces more dates for overseas registration exam
💷 Autumn budget 2024: what it means for dentistry
📉 Benefits of water fluoridation in decline, review finds
🏥 GDC discloses number of suicides among dental professionals with fitness to practise concerns
🇬🇧 Two in three believe they have right to register with NHS dentist
🏥 GDC makes remote hearings permanent
🇬🇧 Three in four dentists do not enjoy NHS work, survey says.