Wales Dental Digest – Winter Edition 2016
The Welsh Government has issued the Winter 2012 Edition of the Wales Dental Digest. It contains a forward from the new Chief Dental Officer, Dr Collette Bridgeman, has relevance to…
Practice Intentions to take on New Patients – Keeping the Localities informed
You will be aware the Localities need to keep updated lists of Practices who are able to take on new patients so that the information can be given to the…
Practice Answerphone Messages
You will have been informed by your locality that an attempt is being made to standardise messages across the LHB on the introduction of the 111 telephone service. This has already…
QAS – Tips For Completing and Submitting QAS Questionnaire
Please remember the closing date for submitting QAS return is 25th November 2016 Chris Wills-Wood has asked me to update colleagues on some errors and omissions he has found on…
Wales Dental Digest Summer Edition
The Summer edition of the Wales Dental Digest can be found using this link. It includes items on promoting hand hygiene to support safe dental care, sharps injuries, an update from HIW…
Further Update on Computer and Data Safety and Ransomware
Following our original Post we are now in receipt of Further Advice from WG following a request from BDA Wales which can be found via the following link: Dental Good…
Computer and Data Safety and Ransomware
One of our LDC members reported the following in relation to Computer and Data Safety: I own a dental practice in South Wales and we recently had a computer problem…
Patient Safety Notice from Welsh Government – Risk of Interaction between Miconazole and Coumarin Anticoagulants
The Welsh Government has published a Patient Safety Notice on the Risk of Patient Harm from an Interaction between Miconazole and Coumarin Anticoagulants. It can be accessed through this link.
LDC Connections April 2016
The latest version of the BDA publication LDC Connections is available at LDC Connections April 2016
Dental Postgraduate Department and Public Health Wales – Smoking Cessation Audit
To assist dental teams to integrate smoking cessation into routine dental practice, a funded audit has been designed by Postgraduate Dental Education, Wales Deanery with Public Health Wales. Bull details…