News

GDC releases healthcare regulators’ whistleblowing disclosures report

The General Dental Council (GDC), along with eight other UK healthcare regulators, has published its 2024 annual report on whistleblowing disclosures.

GDC

Employers need to do more to support people with disabilities, expert says

Following the victory of Paralympian Sabrina Fortune, internet searches for speech dyspraxia have skyrocketed by 600 per cent. Sabrina has speech dyspraxia and a mild intellectual impairment because...

Communication

Dental care provider publishes annual impact report

Dental care provider, Smile Together has published its Social and Environmental Impact report titled ‘A year of giving’, for 2023/2024.

Communication

Dentist and past president of cancer charity receives award

Philip Lewis, dentist and past president of the Mouth Cancer Foundation, received his MBE from Anne Princess Royal at Windsor Castle on September 25, 2024, in recognition of his services to oral...

Volunteering

Healthcare brand partners with recycling app to encourage consumers to recycle

Haleon has partnered with sorting and recycling app developer Bower, to help educate and incentivise consumers to recycle Haleon toothpaste products.

Communication/patient education

UK and Welsh governments team up to tackle NHS waiting list crisis

The UK and Welsh governments will collaborate on healthcare for the first time to help drive down waiting lists on both sides of the border and improve patient care as part of an approach to working...

Communication

Millions of employees set for insufficient retirement incomes, research says

According to the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), automatic enrolment has increased private sector employees’ participation in pension saving.

Communication

Employers are failing to fully resolve workplace conflict, report reveals

Eight in 10 (81 per cent) employers feel they are doing enough to prevent and manage bullying and harassment at work, but just over a third of employees (36 per cent) who experienced conflict in the...

Employment issues

GDC to improve availability of the Overseas Registration Examination

The General Dental Council (GDC) has reviewed the feedback from its recent call for evidence on the structure and operation of the Overseas Registration Examination (ORE) and has published its outcome...

GDC

Welsh health organisation champions tobacco bill to help reduce deaths related to smoking

Analysis from Public Health Wales has revealed that an average of 3,845 deaths in Wales in 2022 were due to smoking. Between 2020 and 2022, more than one in 10 of all deaths amongst those were over...

Alcohol and tobacco

Dental research podcast featuring world-leading experts launched

A podcast series for oral care professionals featuring world-leading experts has launched. The ‘Let’s Talk Oral Health’ podcast will focus on the newest practices in periodontics and implant dentistry...

Communication

Children’s oral health crisis must be addressed to improve overall wellbeing

A report has urged the government to tackle England’s oral health crisis by banning the sale of energy drinks to under 16s, expanding sugar taxes and rolling out a toothbrushing programme.

Children's dentistry