Lecturer Details: Special Care Dentistry MCN Study Day: Patient engagement and communication

Lecturer nameSarah Addington-Hall BDS 2009, DipSCD RCSEd 2021
Lecturer profileQualifications:
BDS 2009
DipSCD RCSEd 2021

Current Post:
Specialist Trainee in Special Care Dentistry in Dorset

Short resume of career to date:
DF1 in CDS in Derbyshire
DF2 in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Leeds General Infirmary/Leeds Dental Hospital.
Started as a Dental Officer in Exeter, Devon in 2011 progressing to Senior Dental Officer in June 2016.
Moved to the CDS in Somerset just prior to the pandemic before starting as a ST1 in Special Care Dentistry in Dorset, September 2021.


Lecturer nameIngrid Bowden
Lecturer profileClinical Mouth Care Training Lead - Torbay/South Devon, Cornwall & IOS
NHS Health Education England, South West Mouth Care Matters
Lecturer nameDr Camilla Boynton
Lecturer profileSpecialist in Special Care Dentistry
Lecturer nameDr Louise Farbus
Lecturer profileLou came to the NHS as the Public and Patient Engagement lead for Specialised Commissioning in 2008 having previously worked for the (then) Peninsula Medical School and the University of Plymouth as a researcher and lecturer in research methods and psychology. She has published a number of peer-reviewed articles on her research; raised £450,000 to create the Upstream Healthy Living Centre to conduct the first British study on the impact of social prescribing, and raised a further £1.2 million to build a Surestart children’s centre in the only deprived neighbourhood that didn’t have one in the city where she lives.
Since joining the NHS she has supported over 100 complex and often controversial service changes always crossing multiple geographical and sometimes challenging professional boundaries and recently returned from a two year secondment to Cornwall and Isles of Scilly STP where she supported the coproduction of seven bespoke models of integrated health and social care.
Lecturer nameDr Lorna Hollingsworth BDS, LDSRCS(Eng), DSCDRCS(Eng), PG CERT(sedation),
Lecturer profileQualifications:
BDS, LDSRCS(Eng), DSCDRCS(Eng),
PG CERT(sedation), MSc

Current Post:
Consultant in Special Care Dentistry
Clinical Director

Lorna is a Consultant in Special Care Dentistry working for Somerset Foundation NHS Trust. After qualifying from the University of Birmingham in 1992 Lorna experienced life as a Vocational Trainee in a busy Wolverhampton NHS practice before moving to a career in the Community Dental Services. Lorna has practised in Dorset since 2014. Alongside her clinical expertise Lorna has extensive experience of managerial and leadership roles and is the Clinical Director for Somerset FT primary care Dental Services providing care across Somerset and Dorset.
Lorna has been awarded Lifetime Membership of the British Society for Disability and Oral Health having held various Committee roles including the Presidency . Lorna is also the Vice Chair for Examiners at the Royal College of Surgeons of England in the Diploma of Special care Dentistry and The Chair of the Special Care Dentistry Managed Clinical network for the South West .
On a warm day, when not at work you may see Lorna paddle boarding off the South Coast.
Lecturer nameDr Louise Hopper BDS (Bristol), PhD (Manchester)
Lecturer profileQualifications:
BDS (Bristol), PhD (Manchester)

Current Post:
Specialist in Special Care Dentistry, Plymouth Community Dental Services

Short Resume of Career to Date:
Louise has worked within the salaried dental service and hospital dental service providing dental care for adults and children with additional needs in London, Greater Manchester, Cornwall and Plymouth. She has also taught student dentists and therapists/hygienists and undertaken primary care dental research. She is the deputy chair of the Southwest Managed Clinical Network for Special Care Dentistry.

Experience Relevant to the topic:
She works with her local Adult Cardiology Department providing pre-cardiac surgery checks for people without a dentist and dental treatment for people with complex adult congenital heart disease.


Lecturer nameSarah McFarlane
Lecturer profileDental network Manager NHS England South West