Course Calendar

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09:00 Successfully Handling Patient Complaints and Increasing Personal Confidence.   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Successfully Handling Patient Complaints and Increasing Personal Confidence. (SW11-04-01-1)
Venue: Education Centre, Salisbury - Salisbury & S Wiltshire
Date: Fri 1 Apr 2011, 09:00 to 16:30
Course style: Lecture
Catering: Meal
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 6:00 hours
Cost: £30.00
Description: Research into why patients complain or sue, demonstrates that over 50% of patients who take things further, against you and your team will have decided to do so because they don’t like you. More worrying however, is that this is commonly something they have thought about doing even before any act of alleged negligence has occurred. Attending this course will be great fun and will enhance your skills in understanding that people react to situations and how to spot this early to avoid unnecessary disputes. Attendance will also enhance your skills at handling complaints effectively and remaining confident in yourself and your approach to working. The course fee also covers acomprehensive workbook.

09:00 Wear is the problem   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Wear is the problem (SW11-04-01-4)
Venue: Burwalls Education Centre, Bristol - Bristol & N Somerset
Date: Fri 1 Apr 2011, 09:00 to 16:30
Course style: Hands-on
Catering: Meal
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 6:00 hours
Cost: £65.00
Description: This hands-on day course includes the management of all types of tooth wear: aetiology, diagnosis, prevention and intervention with latest adhesive aesthetic materials and techniques, including both direct and indirect methods. The programme is part seminar with a lot of hands-on including treatment of a severe case (on models) to learn the use of 6 different techniques.

09:15 Dental Photography   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Dental Photography (SW11-04-01-3)
Venue: The Barn Function Centre, Berkeley - Gloucestershire
Date: Fri 1 Apr 2011, 09:15 to 16:45
Course style: Lecture
Catering: Meal
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 6:00 hours
Cost: £35.00
Description: A course for dentists and DCPs on digital photography in dental practice . In addition to lectures there is plenty of hands-on photography so participants are encouraged to bring along their digital cameras whatever the type, from "point and shoot" to SLR.

14:00 KEEPING PATIENTS’ PERSONAL DATA SECURE: A DATA PROTECTION 2010 UPDATE WORKSHOP   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: KEEPING PATIENTS’ PERSONAL DATA SECURE: A DATA PROTECTION 2010 UPDATE WORKSHOP (SW11-04-01-2)
Venue: Custom Dental Ceramics, Newton Abbott - Devon S & W
Date: Fri 1 Apr 2011, 14:00 to 17:00
Course style: Lecture
Catering: Tea and coffee only
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 3:00 hours
Cost: £5.00
Description: In today’s climate of human rights and privacy of information, and with increasing concern about personal data being “mislaid”, patients may be worried about how well personal information about them that you hold is being protected. Why do you need it? Who are you passing it to? What do you do with it? Is it accurate? How do you protect it? The Data Protection Act 1998 requires all organisations holding personal data about others to comply with a set of best practice standards, but how far do you need to go, and how do you balance compliance with the law against a pragmatic approach.

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09:30 Biofilm and Perio Instrumentation   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Biofilm and Perio Instrumentation (SW11-04-04-1)
Venue: Phantom Head Room-Derriford Hospital, Plymouth - Devon S & W
Date: Mon 4 Apr 2011, 09:30 to 16:30
Course style: Hands-on
Catering: Meal
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 6:00 hours
Cost: £50.00
Description: An Update suitable for all practitioners inc those with OHE certificates wishing to bring skills up to date. Participants will be able to practice techniques according to their scope of practice.

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09:30 Safeguarding Children and young people   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Safeguarding Children and young people (SW11-04-08-1)
Venue: Custom Dental Ceramics, Newton Abbott - Devon S & W
Date: Fri 8 Apr 2011, 09:30 to 16:30
Course style: Lecture
Catering: Meal
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 6:00 hours
Cost: £20.00
Description: New regulations and in particular ‘Working Together to Safeguard Children 2010’ regarding child protection makes it the entire dental team's responsibility! This one day course covers aspects of safeguarding children and other vulnerable people up to level 2.

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09:00 National Examination Preparation Day   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: National Examination Preparation Day (SW11-04-09-1)
Venue: The Gables Hotel, Gloucester - Gloucestershire
Date: Sat 9 Apr 2011, 09:00 to 16:30
Course style: Lecture
Catering: Meal
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 6:00 hours
Cost: £20.00
Description: An informal practical day aimed at dental nurses sitting the national examination in May 2011

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09:30 Ionising Radiation Roadshow   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Ionising Radiation Roadshow (SW11-04-13-1)
Venue: Plymouth Medical Centre, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth - Devon S & W
Date: Wed 13 Apr 2011, 09:30 to 16:30
Course style: Lecture
Catering: Meal
Core topic: Radiography and radiation protection
CPD: 6:00 hours
Cost: £20.00
Description: This course is for dentists and DCPs who have undergone training to take radiographs. It should allow them to fulfil the GDC recommendation that such persons should undergo 5 hrs of CPD relating to ionising radiation in each 5yr CPD cycle.

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09:00 Exam preparation Day   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Exam preparation Day (SW11-04-16-1)
Venue: Buckerell Lodge Hotel, Exeter - Devon N & E
Date: Sat 16 Apr 2011, 09:00 to 16:30
Course style: Hands-on
Catering: Meal
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 6:00 hours
Cost: £20.00
Description: An informal practical day aimed at dental nurses sitting the national examination in May 2011

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09:30 Mastering Posterior Composites: A Simplified Approach   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Mastering Posterior Composites: A Simplified Approach (SW11-04-18-1)
Venue: Truro Dental Education Facility, Truro - Cornwall
Date: Mon 18 Apr 2011, 09:30 to 17:00
Course style: Hands-on
Catering: Meal
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 6:00 hours
Cost: £36.00
Description: Back by popular demand Jason returns to deliver his excellent hands on course covering the simplified placement of posterior composites and teaching us to understand when posterior composite resin placement is predictable...and when it is not.

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09:30 Mastering Anterior Composites   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Mastering Anterior Composites (SW11-04-19-1)
Venue: Truro Dental Education Facility, Truro - Cornwall
Date: Tue 19 Apr 2011, 09:30 to 17:00
Course style: Hands-on
Catering: Meal
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 6:00 hours
Cost: £36.00
Description: Jason Smithson, a local dentist who lectures around the world, will present a hands-on course covering the placement of aesthetic direct anterior composites.

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14:00 Forensic Dentistry - Success is a Funeral   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Forensic Dentistry - Success is a Funeral (SW11-04-24-1)
Venue: Thomas Sydenham Education Centre, Dorset County Hospital, Dorchester - Dorchester & W Dorset
Date: Thu 21 Apr 2011, 14:00 to 16:30
Course style: Hands-on
Catering: Meal
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 2:30 hours
Cost: £12.50
Description: This is an afternoon seminar for dentists and DCPs which includes demonstrations and some group work. A cold buffet lunch will be provided prior to the course commencing. Our speaker says that "dental ID plays a vital role in the identification of victims of mass disaster. It is important that we work together with the investigating authorities and other scientific disciplines to arrive at the correct decision - we cannot allow mistakes to occur." The advantages and disadvantages of dental ID will be discussed as will the mortuary, comparison and legal processes involved, with numerous references to transport and natural disasters from the speaker's own casework.

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09:15 Examination Preparation Day   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Examination Preparation Day (SW11-04-30-1)
Venue: Bristol Dental Hospital, Bristol - Bristol & N Somerset
Date: Sat 30 Apr 2011, 09:15 to 16:30
Course style: Hands-on
Catering: Meal
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 6:00 hours
Cost: £20.00
Description: An informal practical day aimed at dental nurses sitting the national examination in May 2011