DFT North Manchester & Pennine - The BDA (NW170120FNM)

FP84 Claim Form

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Mandatory: Foundation Dentist

1. Why your Professaional Association is Important

• An introduction to the benefits of belonging to the BDA, as a professional body and as a trade union

2. GDC Fitness to Practise Hearings

• To Understand the process of a complaint through the GDC's Ftp committees
• To study and discuss examples of Ftp cases with a former GDC "Expert Witness"

3. The Regulations

That they understand key legal terminology (from the "Contracts" (3361 and "Charges" (3477) legislation) and specifically definitions of:

• Course of treatment
• Mandatory treatment
• Splitting
• Urgent treatment

They will achieve this by an interactive discussion investigating their understanding of these words with an open debate on case studies and examples of erroneous claiming including GDC cases

4.The future

• change in dentistry in legislation and regulation, and macro-economic issues in the world at large
• the objectives and design of the current NHScontract prototypes
• the measures defined in the quality component of proposed new contract
• the impact of the demographic, regulatory, epidemiological and market changes around their working lives
• the importance of continuous learning and enhanced skills will be emphasised

1. Why your Professaional Association is Important

An introduction to the benefits of belonging to the BDA, as a professional body and as a trade union

2. GDC Fitness to Practise Hearings

To Understand the process of a complaint through the GDC's Ftp committees

To study and discuss examples of Ftp cases with a former GDC "Expert Witness"

3. The Regulations

That they understand key legal terminology (from the "Contracts" (3361 and "Charges" (3477) legislation) and specifically definitions of:

Course of treatment

Mandatory treatment

Splitting

Urgent treatment

They will achieve this by an interactive discussion investigating their understanding of these words with an open debate on case studies and examples of erroneous claiming including GDC cases

4.The future

change in dentistry in legislation and regulation, and macro-economic issues in the world at large

the objectives and design of the current NHScontract prototypes

the measures defined in the quality component of proposed new contract

the impact of the demographic, regulatory, epidemiological and market changes around their working lives

the importance of continuous learning and enhanced skills will be emphasised

1. Why your Professaional Association is Important

FDs will learn how the BDA represents the dental profession and understand it represents dentists as a trade union. They will recognise the dangers of isolation and the for advice, education and support throughout their career.

2. GDC Fitness to Practise Hearings

• To improve record keeping
• To understand the importance of FP17 data
• To recognise the importance of and improve communication skills
• Avoidance of complaints to the GDC

3.The Regulations

• The attendees will understand their responsibilityfor accurate claiming.
• They will know the important definitions within the Regulations and how these are interpreted
• They will appreciate the need for accurate and full contemporaneous clinical records

4. The Future

• Fd's will understand the importance of careers pathways, workforce changes, direct access, skill mix and contractual changes on their lives
• Delegates should understand the impact of macro-economic factors on health care policy and the driving forces behind Department of Health policy-making.