Lecturer Details: Lancashire & South Cumbria LDC Event- The Dental Guide to Staying out of trouble

Lecturer nameBernard Alston
Lecturer profileDental Surgeon
Partner in large GDP practice for 25 years
Clinical Director in Community Dental Service for 8 years
Oral Health Strategy Lead and PEC member for Blackpool PCT from 2005 to 2011
Clinical Director FCMS Dental Service from 2004
Vice Chair Lancashire and South Cumbria Local Dental Network from 2014
Chair Routine Dental Network from 2014
Secretary Lancashire and South Cumbria LDC Executive
Lecturer nameMike Cheadle Dental surgeon. Qualified BDS U'Liv 1977 GDP since
Lecturer profile
Member of Lancashire now Coastal LDC for 30 years, 21 as Treasurer. Now sit on the LDC Executive Liaison Group with NHSE. LDC representative on the Performance Screening Group from its inception, then becoming Performance Advisory Group. Received PAG/PLDP and Case Investigator training. Now served 3 years as Dental Discipline Specific Member of PAG.
Lecturer nameMr John Makin BDS PgDL PgCDE FHEA
Lecturer profile
John qualified in Manchester in 1983 and has worked as a general dental practitioner in both NHS and private practice in Lancashire and Devon. He was involved with Foundation Training for many years as an Educational Supervisor and then Training Programme Director with the Manchester and Exeter DFT Schemes.

John has postgraduate diplomas in law and dental education and served on the GDC’s Fitness to Practise Committee before becoming a full time dento-legal adviser with The Dental Defence Union where he has had significant involvement in the development and delivery of DDU’s undergraduate and postgraduate education programmes. He lectures throughout the UK on range of dento-legal topics and is the author of numerous articles on the subject, John is now Head of the DDU.
Lecturer nameDr John Milne
Lecturer profileJohn Milne qualified from Leeds Dental School in 1980 and has worked in General Dental Practice since then. He is currently a partner in a practice near Wakefield. John has been involved in dental politics at both local and national level, representing colleagues through the local dental committee and at national level as Chair of the BDA’s General Dental Practice Committee where he has been involved in NHS contract reform.

He has also worked as a clinical assistant in orthodontics at Mid Yorkshire Hospital Trust and as Dental Adviser to Wakefield Primary Care Trust.