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Dentists - Primary Care Contractors

CPD/ED

• Dental Postgraduate Courses 2009 (11k)
• Post Graduate Dental Education website

Monitoring Templates

• Documents will be updated shortly

Good Practice

• Decontamination (968k)
• Advice for dentists on re-use of endodontic instruments and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD) (55k)
• Single-use instruments for Endodontic Procedures (100k)
• Dental National Decontamination Survey (32k)

Orthodontic Referral Guidance for General dental Practitioners

• Orthodontic Referrals (24k)
• Covering letter to GDPs (105k)
• Pictorial Guide for Practitioners (65k)
• Sample Orthodontic Referral Form (42k)

Cross Infection Control

• Guide to Legionella Risk Assessment for Dental Practices (229k)
• HTM 01-05: Decontamination in primary care dental practices (1.93Mb)
• Local Self Assessment Audit for Assessing Implementation of HTM 01-05 (1.72Mb)

Display Screens

• The Law on VDU's - an Easy Guide (278k)
• Working with Display Screen Equipment (687k)
• Working with VDU's (100k)

Electricity at Work

• Guidance on the Electricity at Work Regulations (355k)

Making your premises safe from Fire

• Guide to making your premises safe from fire (1.07Mb)

First Aid and Resuscitation Guidance

• First Aid - your questions answered (95k)
• UK Resuscitation Council Guidelines (573k)

Manual Handling Regulations

• Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 (1.12Mb)

Good practice in the management of controlled drugs

• A guide to good practice in the management of controlled drugs (2.20Mb)

Personal Protection

• A short guide to the Personal Protection at Work Regulations 1992 (76k)

Pressure Systems

• Guide to the Provision and Use of Work Regulations 1992 (261k)
• Pressure Systems and You (165k)
• Written Schemes of Examination (93k)

Radiation in Dentistry

• Good Practice (39k)
• Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) Regulations 2000 (57k)
• Guidance Notes for Dental Practitioners on the Safe Use of X-Ray Equipment (724k)
• Working with Ionising Radiation (6.65Mb)

RIDDOR

• A guide to RIDDOR (898k)

Risk Assessment

• 5 steps to risk assessment (132k)
• Health and Safety regulation - a short guide (366k)
• Management of Helath and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 Approved Code of Practice and Guidance (296k)

Completion of FP17's

• Completion of form guidance (647k)
• Completing FP17 (683k)

Regulations

• GDS Regulations (286k)
• NHS Charges Regulations (97k)
• PDS Regulations (555k)

Performers List Regulations

• NHS Performers List Regulations 2004 (142k)
• NHS Performers List Regulations Amendment Regulations (2005) (98k)

Support and Stress management scheme for Doctors and Dentists

• Contact - Introductory Letter (25k)
• Contact - Leaflet (29k)

NICE Guidance

• Brief interventions and referral for smoking cessation (196k)
• Guidance on the removal of wisdom teeth (89k)
• HealOzone for tooth decay (51k)
• NICE Dental Recalls (48k)
• Prophylaxis against infective endocarditis (562k)

Useful Links

• Care Quality Commission – registration information
• General Dental Council
• Department of Health
• NHS Business Service Authority
• Staffordshire Safeguarding Children Board
• Child Protection and the Dental Team
• South Staffs Patient Advice and Liaison Service
• West Midlands Postgraduate dental deanery

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