Lecturer Details: Delivering Better Oral Health: an update for DCP’S

Lecturer nameLyndsay Lightfoot RGN, CertDPM, DipHSM, GradDipDH/DT, PGClinEd, MSc,
Lecturer profileAfter originally qualifying as a General Nurse in 1989 I gradually drifted towards dentistry and graduated from Leeds Dental Institute in 2007 as a Dental Hygienist and Therapist. Since then I have worked in my own General Dental Practices, both NHS and Private, teach the whole dental team as a freelance lecturer and was a senior lecturer at Teesside University for three years. I was also the Hygiene and Therapy Educational Supervisor at HENE (Northern Deanery) and set up a VT course for newly qualified therapists.

Currently, as well as working in practice, I am a member of the NEBDN Oral Health Education Committee and a Presiding Examiner for the NEBDN Oral Health Certificate. I am also a Clinical Advisor to the GDC and act as an expert witness for them in FtP cases.
Lecturer nameCatherine Macdona MA, PG Cert HCL (Open), LCGl
Lecturer profileCatherine is the Dental Nurse Education Commissioner for Health Education England, working across the Yorkshire and Humber region and based at Leeds. She is an independent dental trainer, a dental nurse Licentiate, and holds a post qualification in Oral Health Education from the NEBDN.

A further education tutor and assessor, she has delivered the NEBDN Certificate and Diploma in dental nursing to student dental nurses at the Leeds Dental Institute.

More recently she has widened her field of interest to leadership and management in healthcare, completing the Edward Jenner Leadership Foundations programme and the Mary Seacole Award in in Leading in Healthcare with the NHS Leadership Academy. In 2015 Catherine completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Healthcare Leadership with the Open University, passing with Merit.

In 2018 she completed a Master’s Degree in Learning and Development Management at the University of Huddersfield, graduating with distinction.