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Management of Dental Patients Taking Anticoagulants or Antiplatelet Drugs – New guidance from SDCEP

A new guidance document  from  The Scottish Dental Clinical Effectiveness Programme (SDCEP) on the Management of Dental Patients Taking Anticoagulants […]

Dentistry in Primary Care Collaborative announced

Healthcare Improvement Scotland  has announced it will run a pilot improvement collaborative in dentistry in primary care settings. This is […]

Scottish Health Awards 2015 – Dentist Award

The Scottish Health Awards are now an established part of the Scottish Calendar. In addition to the usual award categories […]

National Clinical Lead for SPSP – Dentist

Healthcare Improvement Scotland is advertising a  two sessions per week post  for dentist be a National lead for  the Scottish […]

Statement of Dental Remuneration Update

An update to the Statement of Dental Remuneration was issued in May 2015.

New Scottishdental website

The  Scottishdental website has been updated and is now hosted on a more responsive design to provide an optimal viewing performance […]

Scottish Dental Clinical Effectiveness Programme – website updated

Today see the launch of  a major update to the websites of the Scottish Dental Clinical Effectiveness Programme (SDCEP) and […]

The Scottish Government

Statement of Dental Remuneration -Amendment No.128

The revised statement of dental remuneration (SDR), will take effect from 1st April 2015. Download a copy of  SDR- No.128 […]

Ebola Guidance for Dental Care Teams

Advice on Ebola for dental care teams recently published by Public Health England has now been modified by Health Protection […]

The Scottish Government

Emergency Drugs and Equipment in Primary Dental Care

The National Dental Advisory Committee (NDAC) has published a revised document on Emergency Drugs and Equipment in Primary Dental Care. […]

New SDCEP Decontamination Guidance

SDCEP recently updated its ‘Decontamination Into Practice’ guidance. A second edition of ‘Cleaning of Dental Instruments’ has been published which […]

Dental Workforce Report 2014

The latest Dental Workforce Report is now available. The report provides analysis, intelligence and modeling to support workforce planning for […]

Oral health improves in Primary 1 pupils

The latest data from the National Dental Inspection Programme (NDIP) is released today.  It shows a  slight improvement in the […]

Have your say on the future of dental education research in Scotland

Would you like to help set the agenda of future dental education research in Scotland if so please go to […]

Practice Premises Revaluation Exercise -2014/5

This letter provides information on forthcoming revaluation exercise of dental practices that will take place between 20th October 2014 and […]

Research Audit Hours

Following changes to the arrangements for clinical audit participation in research projects participation in dental research will be eligible for  […]

European Association of Dental Public Health – Conference resolution on the control of e-cigarettes

At their scientific congress on the 12th June 2014  in Gothenburg European Association of Dental Public Health (EADPH) delegates passed […]

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Prevention and treatment of periodontal diseases in primary dental care – New Guidance from SDCEP

The latest guidance from SDCEP  (Scottish Dental Clinical Effectiveness Programme). The guidance aims to support the dental team in improving […]

Scottish Dental Practice Based Research Network Symposium-June 2014

The SDPBRN 2014 Symposium is the place to hear about the latest research in dental primary care in Scotland and elsewhere.

The Scottish Government

Statement of Dental Remuneration- Amendment No.126

The latest amendments to the Statement of Dental Remuneration (SDR) will take effect on the 1st June 2014. This includes […]