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Association announces honorary president for 2023-24

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The British Association of Dental Nurses (BADN), the UK’s professional association for dental nurses, is delighted to announce that Joan Hatchard, current chairman, will be taking on the role of honorary president from the 2023 Annual General Meeting for the remainder of the recently vacated 2022-24 presidential term.

Joan gained her National Certificate in 1988 and went on to gain post-qualification certificates in oral health education, radiography, and conscious sedation, becoming the practice manager of two busy private general dental practices. Joan started teaching the National Certificate course in 1989. She also gained the FAETC and the Certificate in Education (FE) and holds the City and Guilds Licentiateship in dental nursing.

Joan was an examiner for a number of years on the NEBDN Panel of Examiners for the National Diploma and the Certificate in Oral Health Education. She has held positions on BADN Council, first as the chair of BADN Practice Managers’ and Receptionists’ National Group, and then as finance officer. More recently, she has been a member of the BADN executive committee as treasurer and then chairman. Joan is a BADN Fellow and received the 2013 BADN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Dental Nursing.

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