Revealed at last week’s Dental Showcase, this newly redesigned website offers quick and easy access to essential information and features as well as the online CPD modules.

We are proud to announce the launch of our newly revamped website!

Revealed at last week’s Dental Showcase, this newly redesigned website offers quick and easy access to essential information and features as well as the online CPD modules.

We are updating it daily with news and views relevant to you and visitors can have access to a comprehensive archive of useful Dental Nursing articles – past and present!

The new website has a clean uncluttered design, improved functionality and enhanced rich content heavily focused on our mission to provide dental nurses with help to enrich their career – whatever stage they might be.

We hope it provides a better understand the changing landscape of the dental profession and inspires you to seek new challenges within dentistry.

Our new website also features product launches, updates on regulations, focuses on career opportunities as well as dental milestones, events and course information.

Visitors are encouraged to explore the website and, for those of you reading this issue and yet to subscribe, you can do so via the website. We like to think that an investment in our journal is a sound one – and with a website to complement its content – you are guaranteed an enhanced experience.

ECPD
On that topic, we take a look ahead to enhanced continued professional development (ECPD) that is coming next year.

ECPD is the first step in a longer-term reform of CPD to move to a system based on quality of CPD activity rather than quantity.

ECPD will empower professionals to embark on lifelong learning, which can be embedded into their practice. Patients will also benefit from being treated by dental professionals with up to date knowledge and skills.

The changes include the introduction of a personal development plan (PDP) for each member of the dental team. There are also changes to the number of hours that dental professionals must complete during a cycle and a new requirement to make an annual declaration of the number of CPD hours completed each year. The changes will take place in January 2018 for dentists and in August 2018 for dental care professionals.

There is a suite support materials for Enhanced CPD on the GDC website and even an Enhanced CPD transition tool here – https://gdc.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/ecpdtool.

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