DFO Netcast 44 - Advice Sheet A69
Channel: Derek Watson
Date: 2013-09-03

It's Chris Ritchie's turn to be absent without notice as the DFO duo discuss this week's dental news.

A senior dentist who has been suspended for two years awaiting the General Dental Council to consider 46 counts of malpractice must face disciplinary action from his employers. Are NHS bodies entitled to pre-empt the decision of the GDC on clinical issues? Were the employers entitled to stop waiting for the GDC to pull its finger out?

IDH claims that their first branch in Tesco is the first large postgraduate education centre as part of a corporate body. What hours does a 'Tesco' dentist have to work? Have you used the optical services in Tesco's? More than once?

We talk to David Croser of DPL on the relaxation on the clinical ban on dentists with HIV. Under the new rules, healthcare workers with HIV will be allowed to undertake all procedures if they are on effective combination anti-retro-viral drug therapy. They must also have an undetectable viral load of HIV in their system, and must be regularly monitored. This was established by the Beijing Declaration in 2009.

The Government predicts that patients have more chance of being struck by lightning than being infected with HIV by a health worker. Should the BDA put out an advice sheet on oral sex. Would it be called A69? Download the Fusion app from Google Play or the iTunes store to keep up-to-date with FREE DFO content.

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