New chair

Published On: 22-02-2010

Robert Kinloch has been elected as the new chair of the Scottish Dental Practice Committee of the British Dental Association. Robert, who practises at Alexandria, near Loch Lomond, was elected unopposed and takes up his responsibilities with immediate effect. He succeeds Colin Crawford, who resigned from the committee to take up an appointment in the salaried dental service.

Robert has a special interest in the role of information technology in dentistry, and has been an advocate of the extension of the N3 national broadband network to dental surgeries in Scotland, which it is hoped is a building block to full clinical systems. He has extensive experience of representing the profession, in Scotland and UK-wide.

Thanking his committee for his mandate, Robert said: ‘It is an honour to be elected to represent Scotland’s high street dentists and I look forward to continuing the good work of SDPC. We have unresolved issues with changing decontamination requirements and plans to introduce lifelong patient registration. We are also pressing for the introduction of an oral health assessment and a revised Statement of Dental Remuneration. All of these issues must be tackled against a backdrop of uncertainty in public spending and a Scottish Government election in just over a year.’


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