Debate on contract reform

The conference, which is attended by LDC representatives from across the country, will debate motions on a wide range of issues that have a practical impact on general dental practitioners’ working lives. Those expressing dissatisfaction with the prototype model of reforms, contract clawback and red tape/onerous regulation are likely to occupy centre stage.

The conference will also host for the first time a ‘Question Time’ style debate, chaired by Alisdair McKendrick, who is also chair of the 2017 LDCs annual conference. The panel will include Professor Nairn Wilson, Paul Worskett (participant in NHS prototypes), Nikki Patel from the BDA Young Dentists Committee and Henrik Overgaard-Nielsen, chair of the BDA General Dental Practice Committee.

Delegates will also hear a presentation from Claire Stevens, consultant in paediatric dentistry, who will argue that seeing children at the dental practice by the age of one is not only good for building dental practices but could also make significant in-roads into reducing the scandalously high numbers of youngsters who are admitted to hospital for removal of decayed teeth.