Dear LDC Secretaires, Nominations have now opened for the triennium elections to BDA committees https://www.bda.org/news-centre/latest-news-articles/Pages/Nominations-for-BDA-elections-are-now-open.aspx. Nominations will close at midday on Monday 25 October. If you have any queries, please contact elections@bda.org. If you could please pass this information onto your members. Kind regards, Kirsten

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The Scottish Dental Practice Committee (SDPC) held a meeting by videoconference on Wednesday 15 September 2021, to discuss the latest Covid-19 developments. This report provides a contemporary record of that meeting, but as this is a fast-moving situation, its content is likely to become rapidly out of date. The BDA provides live updates at https://www.bda.org/coronavirus […]

Self-isolation exemption for healthcare workers Discussions in Scotland have taken place following the UK Government’s announcement that vaccinated Health & Social Care staff could be exempted from self-isolation. Scottish Government has issued a letter to NHS Boards; ​these arrangements are decided on a case by case subject to risk assessment and the service being in […]

This document summarises recent key developments and BDA Scotland activities. We publish regular updates on these issues on the BDA’s Coronavirus Live Updates web page: Live updates: Coronavirus and dentistry (bda.org) (more…)

Dear all I would be grateful if you could share Director’s Letter – DL(2021)22 – Self Isolation Exemption for Health and Social Care Workers with your contacts. The framework has been designed with clinical leads within the Scottish Government to enable fully vaccinated and asymptomatic Health and Social Care staff who have been a contact […]

Please find attached a letter from the Director of Dentistry regarding the restart of Dental Practice Inspections with effect from 1 September 2021. Practices will be given approx. 8 weeks notice in advance of their inspection. Those practices who are are due September, October and November have already received notification that they are the first […]

Dear colleague, I am very aware of the pressure that you are all coming under from patients anxious to receive routine care and increasingly expecting to be able to do so. I append a letter from me to any / all of your NHS patients trying to calm expectations at this stage of the pandemic […]

Dear Dental Practitioners I refer to the recent Memorandum to NHS Circular PCA(D)(2021)3 Funding Support for Ventilation Equipment in General Dental Practice. In line with that document practices can now make a claim for any associated costs of ventilating their surgeries. The following is attached: Memorandum to NHS Circular PCA(D)(2021)3 guidance from The Scottish Government. […]

We appreciate that the last 18 months or so have not been easy for anybody, and in particular for all of us in the world of Dentistry. We know that you are all working hard to support the care needs of your patients and that your activity is necessarily reduced because of the current IPC requirements. […]