Course Calendar

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19:00 Tips, tricks and pitfalls in complete removable prosthodontics   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Tips, tricks and pitfalls in complete removable prosthodontics (SW-23-02-01-01)
Venue: Zoom, N/A - N/A - Virtual
Date: Wed 1 Feb 2023, 19:00 to 21:00
Development outcome: C
Course style: Interactive Workshop
Catering: None
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 2:00 hours
Cost: £20.00
Description: An interactive course covering tips, tricks and pitfalls in complete removable prosthetics. The course will be led by Mike Gregory who qualified as a dental technician prior to becoming a dentist. He has lectured since 1993 to undergraduates at Bristol Dental Hospital. In addition, he lectures post-graduate students on the topic and is part of a John Beresford study group. Participants are encouraged to contact Katherine Sugg (Katherine.sugg@hee.nhs.uk) with any areas that they would especially like covered. This allows the course to be tailored to the particular audience on the day.

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09:00 Managing Toothwear   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Managing Toothwear (FD33355)
Venue: Zoom, N/A - N/A - Virtual
Date: Thu 2 Feb 2023, 09:00 to 10:30
Development outcome: A, C
Course style: Lecture
Catering: None
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 1:30 hours
Cost: No charge
Description: An overview of the diagnosis and management of toothwear of patients and treatment options

11:30 Making a Good Impression   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Making a Good Impression (FD33356)
Venue: Zoom, N/A - N/A - Virtual
Date: Thu 2 Feb 2023, 11:30 to 12:30
Course style: Lecture
Catering: None
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 1:00 hour
Cost: No charge
Description: A pre-recorded session covering impression taking techniques in fixed prosthodontics.

19:00 Restorative Managed Clinical Network: Hands on Treatment Planning - from Home!   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Restorative Managed Clinical Network: Hands on Treatment Planning - from Home! (SW23-02-02)
Venue: MS Teams, Virtual - N/A - Virtual
Date: Thu 2 Feb 2023, 19:00 to 21:00
Development outcome: C
Course style: E- learning
Catering: None
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 2:00 hours
Cost: No charge
Description: Please join Tim O'Brien and the Team from the Restorative Dentistry Managed Clinical Network for a free evening of virtual case discussion and treatment planning.  What would you do? Delegates will receive case notes and radiographs relating to types of cases commonly encountered in practice and asked to (anonymously) answer a number of questions relating to their management. Significantly, this session will also address the issue of how to claim for these types of cases.   The panel will discuss various approaches to management as well as addressing questions from the audience. 

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09:00 Hands on Composites Study Day   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Hands on Composites Study Day (SW23-02-04-01)
Venue: Bristol Dental Hospital, Bristol - Bristol & N Somerset
Date: Sat 4 Feb 2023, 09:00 to 16:00
Development outcome: C
Course style: Hands-on
Catering: Tea and coffee only
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 6:00 hours
Cost: £175.00
Description: Please join us in Bristol Clinical Skills Lab on Saturday 4th February, for a day of composite restorations. Laurna Lambert, Clinical Lecturer at Bristol Dental Hospital, will be leading us through cavity design and preparation, dentine bonding agents, matrix systems, curing and finishing. This will be a small group of no more than 10 people, giving plenty of opportunity for advice and discussion. Participants will practice techniques, including the placement of rubber dam using anatomical models. This course will cover posterior and anterior restorations. All dentists and therapists are very welcome, at any stage of their career. This course is suitable for PVLE colleagues.

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18:30 Interpreting Intra-Oral and Extra-Oral Radiographs   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Interpreting Intra-Oral and Extra-Oral Radiographs (SW23-02-06-01)
Venue: Zoom, N/A - N/A - Virtual
Date: Mon 6 Feb 2023, 18:30 to 20:30
Development outcome: C
Course style: E- learning
Catering: None
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 2:00 hours
Cost: £15.00
Description: This is a refresher course on our diagnostic interpretation skills of intra-oral and extra-oral radiographs taken in practice. It will enable us to distinguish the normal from the abnormal. The course will also cover how to set up a radiographic audit in line with general dental council expectations.The course will be led by Linda Parrott who has a special interest in the subject and will use projected digital images covering normal anatomy ,pathology and the more unusual.This course is especially important to refresh diagnostic skills.

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10:00 Human Factors   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Human Factors (DCT22- 10)
Venue: Zoom, N/A - N/A - Virtual
Date: Wed 8 Feb 2023, 10:00 to 16:00
Development outcome: A, B, D
Course style: Interactive Workshop
Catering: None
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 6:00 hours
Cost: No charge
Description: this course aims to help us understand how pressures can affect the way we work as a team. An immersive study day to familiarise members of the dental team with human factors relevant to their clinical practice utilising dental, medical and aviation expertise. This is an opportunity for the GDP team to update on patient safety and never events in Dentistry and develop HF skills including situational awareness, professional communication, brief/debrief and handover and put these skills into practice in teams on desk top flight simulators, a 737 simulator and within a plane fuselage under the expert tutelage of medical and aviation HF experts. All are welcome, whether in dental teams or as individuals.

19:00 Tips, Tricks and Pitfalls in Removable Partial Prosthodontics   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Tips, Tricks and Pitfalls in Removable Partial Prosthodontics (SW23-02-08-01)
Venue: Zoom, N/A - N/A - Virtual
Date: Wed 8 Feb 2023, 19:00 to 21:00
Development outcome: C
Course style: E- learning
Catering: None
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 2:00 hours
Cost: £20.00
Description: An interactive course covering Tips, Tricks and Pitfalls in removable partial prosthetics. The course will be led by Mike Gregory who qualified as a dental technician prior to becoming a dentist. He lectures to under-graduate and post-graduate students on the topic and is part of a John Berseford peer review group. Participants are encouraged to contact Katherine Sugg ( Katherine.sugg@hee.nhs.uk) with any areas that they would especially like covered. Participants are also encouraged to bring any tricky cases with them.

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09:00 Dentistry and the Future   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Dentistry and the Future (FD33361)
Venue: Zoom, N/A - N/A - Virtual
Date: Thu 9 Feb 2023, 09:00 to 09:45
Development outcome: A, B, D
Course style: Lecture
Catering: None
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 1:00 hour
Cost: No charge
Description: An update on the current and future plans for NHS Dentistry

09:00 EXAMINATION PREPARATION-Including OSCE stations   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: EXAMINATION PREPARATION-Including OSCE stations (DCT22 - 19)
Venue: Dept of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Swindon - Swindon & N Wiltshire
Date: Thu 9 Feb 2023, 09:00 to 12:00
Development outcome: C
Course style: Interactive Workshop
Catering: None
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 3:00 hours
Cost: No charge

10:00 CQC, Sepsis and Prescribing   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: CQC, Sepsis and Prescribing (FD33362)
Venue: Zoom, N/A - N/A - Virtual
Date: Thu 9 Feb 2023, 10:00 to 12:45
Development outcome: A, B, C, D
Course style: Lecture
Catering: None
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 2:30 hours
Cost: No charge

19:00 Local Anaesthetic Refresher   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Local Anaesthetic Refresher (SW-23-02-09-01)
Venue: MS Teams, Virtual - N/A - Virtual
Date: Thu 9 Feb 2023, 19:00 to 20:30
Development outcome: A, C, D
Course style: E- learning
Catering: None
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 1:30 hours
Cost: £15.00
Description: HEE SW are delighted to welcome Christine Macleavy, experienced dental therapist, to deliver a refresher webinar on local anaesthetics.

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19:00 Local Anaesthetic Refresher   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Local Anaesthetic Refresher (SW23-02-16-01)
Venue: MS Teams, Virtual - N/A - Virtual
Date: Thu 16 Feb 2023, 19:00 to 20:30
Development outcome: A, C, D
Course style: E- learning
Catering: None
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 1:30 hours
Cost: £15.00
Description: HEE SW are delighted to welcome Christine Macleavy, experienced dental therapist, to deliver a refresher webinar on local anaesthetics.

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09:00 Oral Surgery - complications and management (plusDiscussion forum about Oral surgery training and pathways)   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Oral Surgery - complications and management (plusDiscussion forum about Oral surgery training and pathways) (DCT22 - 15)
Venue: MS Teams, Virtual - N/A - Virtual
Date: Fri 17 Feb 2023, 09:00 to 12:30
Development outcome: C
Course style: E- learning
Catering: None
Core topic: Core topics
CPD: 3:30 hours
Cost: No charge

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08:30 OMFS Simulation Day   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: OMFS Simulation Day (DCT22 - 16)
Venue: Southmead Hospital, Bristol - Bristol & N Somerset
Date: Mon 20 Feb 2023, 08:30 to 17:00
Development outcome: C
Course style: Interactive Workshop
Catering: None
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 6:00 hours
Cost: No charge
Description: Improve DCTs ability to instigate initial care in unwell OMFS patients while escalating to seniors appropriately

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19:00 Pulpitis reclassification and vital pulp therapy   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Pulpitis reclassification and vital pulp therapy (SW23-02-21-01)
Venue: MS Teams, Virtual - N/A - Virtual
Date: Tue 21 Feb 2023, 19:00 to 20:30
Development outcome: C
Course style: E- learning
Catering: None
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 1:30 hours
Cost: £15.00
Description: This evening is a great opportunity to get to grips with pulpitis. We will be joined virtually by Professor Foschi, Honorary Consultant and Programme Lead for Endodontics at the University of Plymouth. Prof Foschi will be discussing the reclassification of pulpitis and the implications this has for management. We will consider diagnosis, how we might manage pulpitis with modern vital pulp therapy, and the importance of monitoring complete pulpotomies.

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09:00 Dentists as educators   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Dentists as educators (DCT22 - 08)
Venue: Zoom, N/A - N/A - Virtual
Date: Wed 22 Feb 2023, 09:00 to 17:00
Development outcome: C
Course style: E- learning
Catering: None
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 6:00 hours
Cost: No charge
Description: To introduce DCPs to the role of dentists as educators and to begin to develop the required skills to fulfil this aspect of their professional role.

10:00 Clinical Audit   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Clinical Audit (SW23-02-22-02)
Venue: Copthorne Hotel, Plymouth - Devon S & W
Date: Wed 22 Feb 2023, 10:00 to 13:00
Development outcome: B, D
Course style: Interactive Workshop
Catering: Tea and coffee only
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 3:00 hours
Cost: £15.00
Description: This in an opportunity to raise the standard of care we provide for our patients in just a few hours. Malcolm Prideaux (Associate Dean Health Education England, Southwest) we be explaining the principles of clinical governance and introducing the concept of audit and its importance in clinical dentistry. Malcolm will be encouraging us to design our own audits and appreciate the value of introducing these into our practices. To fully participate in this session, please email in advance two sets of bitewing radiographs to Malcolm.Prideaux@hee.nhs.uk - please ensure they do not have any patient identifiers

14:00 Welcome to the South West – for current PLVE dentists and new starters   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Welcome to the South West – for current PLVE dentists and new starters (SW23- 02-22-01)
Venue: Copthorne Hotel, Plymouth - Devon S & W
Date: Wed 22 Feb 2023, 14:00 to 17:00
Development outcome: B, D
Course style: Interactive Workshop
Catering: Light buffet
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 3:00 hours
Cost: No charge
Description: Health Education England (HEE) invite all current PLVE dentists and new starters to join us for afternoon tea. This is a great opportunity to meet other PLVE dentists which we understand has been challenging during the pandemic. As well as sharing our experiences of PLVE so far, this will be a good time to ensure everyone is comfortable with the ePortfolio and to find out about the opportunities for dentists both as PLVEs and beyond. This event is free to attend, we do hope that you are able to join us. If you have any questions about the afternoon, please contact Lucy.silk@hee.nhs.uk. Your Educational Supervisor is most welcome to join us.

14:30 Preformed metal crowns for primary molars-theory and practical application   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Preformed metal crowns for primary molars-theory and practical application (SW-22-02-22-01)
Venue: Park House HEE Office, Bristol - Bristol & N Somerset
Date: Wed 22 Feb 2023, 14:30 to 16:30
Development outcome: B, C, D
Course style: Lecture with table top practice elements
Catering: Tea and coffee only
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 2:00 hours
Cost: £70.00
Description: This course will cover the evidence base behind the use of preformed metal crowns. There will be a practical table top element where all delegates will have the opportunity to place preformed metal crowns on models and practice handling, sizing and crimping crowns. This course will be most suitable for dentists and therapists and will be a small group with plenty of opportunity for questions in a relaxed and informal atmosphere. It is a repeat of the very popular courses held in 2022.

19:00 Fast Track Referrals, Oral Lesions, Malignancy   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Fast Track Referrals, Oral Lesions, Malignancy (SW23-02-22-01)
Venue: MS Teams, Virtual - N/A - Virtual
Date: Wed 22 Feb 2023, 19:00 to 20:30
Development outcome: C
Course style: E- learning
Catering: None
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 1:30 hours
Cost: £15.00
Description: This evening is an opportunity to ensure that we fully understand the process of making fast track referrals, and can identify which lesions we should be referring via this system. Ceri Hughes (Consultant Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon, Bristol) will be helping us to understand the significance of intra oral lesions and their management in primary care.

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14:00 NHS Regulations   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: NHS Regulations (SW23-02-23-01)
Venue: Park House HEE Office, Bristol - Bristol & N Somerset
Date: Thu 23 Feb 2023, 14:00 to 16:00
Development outcome: B
Course style: Lecture
Catering: None
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 2:00 hours
Cost: £55.00
Description: The course is designed as a definitive guide to understanding NHS rules and regulations that apply to NHS dental practice. THIS COURSE IS ONLY FOR THOSE DENTISTS NEEDING IT IN ORDER TO GET THEIR PERFORMER NUMBER. If you are unsure as to whether you should book on please contact katherine.sugg@hee.nhs.uk Course additional info, aims, objectives & learning outcomes have been set.

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10:00 Validation Supervisor Training Day - FOR SOUTH WEST PRACTICES ONLY   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Validation Supervisor Training Day - FOR SOUTH WEST PRACTICES ONLY (SW-23-02-27-01)
Venue: MS Teams, Virtual - N/A - Virtual
Date: Mon 27 Feb 2023, 10:00 to 16:00
Development outcome: A, B, D
Course style: Interactive Workshop
Catering: None
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 6:00 hours
Cost: £85.00
Description: This course is an opportunity to develop your skills to support colleagues who are new to the NHS. This will be an informal day with plenty of time for discussion. Being a Validation Supervisor is hugely rewarding and a wonderful way to welcome the skills of colleagues form diverse backgrounds into the workforce.

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08:30 Restorative DCT Study Day   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Restorative DCT Study Day (DCT22-17)
Venue: Sandford Education Centre- Cheltenham, Cheltenham - Gloucestershire
Date: Tue 28 Feb 2023, 08:30 to 17:00
Development outcome: C
Course style: Hands-on
Catering: None
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 8:00 hours
Cost: No charge
Description: Restorative Dentistry/ Implants/ Maxillofacial Prosthetics DCT Study Day

09:00 Managing Periodontal Disease in General Practice   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Managing Periodontal Disease in General Practice (FD34354)
Venue: Mercure Salisbury White Hart Hotel, Wiltshire - Swindon & N Wiltshire
Date: Tue 28 Feb 2023, 09:00 to 16:00
Development outcome: C
Course style: Lecture
Catering: None
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 3:00 hours
Cost: No charge

19:00 A guide to being Foundation training practice   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: A guide to being Foundation training practice (FT33357)
Venue: MS Teams, Virtual - N/A - Virtual
Date: Tue 28 Feb 2023, 19:00 to 20:00
Development outcome: A, B, D
Course style: E- learning
Catering: None
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 1:00 hour
Cost: No charge
Description: an opportunity to see what's involved in being an Educational supervisor for Dental foundation training or Therapy foundation training