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Dental department. MDECS AND DENTISTRY. Opportunities and challenges. June 2010. More people access dental services more than any other healthcare service. Oral health must be considered as a key component to general health care. Dentistry in London.
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Dental department MDECSAND DENTISTRY Opportunities and challenges June 2010
More people access dental services more than any other healthcare service. Oral health must be considered as a key component to general health care
Dentistry in London • 28% of the national output of dentists are from London UG schools • London deanery is the only deanery to train for all 13 dental specialties • We provide and commission continuing professional development (CPD) for the whole dental team • London trains 250 Dental Foundation trainees per year
Where are we now? • DF2 bundle out for tender. Lead Providers have been signed on to the framework • The hope and anticipation is that LPs have engaged with existing LEPs • The SoR and draft ITT have addressed quality issues, training in more than one setting, mapping and delivery of the DF curriculum
Benefits of the Commissioner /Provider separation – DF2 • Raising the profile of dentistry within the Lead providers • Innovative programmes that will ensure training in more than one setting • An engagement with providers to raise standards • The possibility of combined DF1 and DF2 programmes in • the future
Benefits & Challenges of the C/P separation – DF1 • DF1 training within the primary care setting raises contractual challenges • There are no natural LPs for DF1 and therefore development of the market will be key • An opportunity perhaps to pilot the C/P separation within • primary care in both GDS and GP using consortia. • For dentistry an opportunity for new ways of delivering DF1 training with clear water between commissioner and provider
Benefits and challenges of the C/P separation - CPD • The dental part of the deanery, provides courses and CPD to the whole • dental team. Cf medicine • This is done via dental tutors, and DCP (dental care professional ) • tutors who are linked to the sectors of London • Poor performance and referral from GDC, PCTs etc is managed by the • deanery. Will this be commissioned with Dental CPD? • e-Wisdom is a valuable resource for revalidation. PDP setting to inform the need for CPD is essential