'Ethics' Added To The Topics List For This Year's Premier Awards

Building on the success of the last eight years, Dental Protection and Sch??lke announce an expansion of The Premier Awards which this year will accept entries of original papers on dental ethics.



With a total prize fund of ??6,000, the Awards offer one of the largest cash prizes for dental risk management projects in the UK. With the addition of the new category Ethics, there are now six subject areas to choose from:


- Infection control,
- Health and Safety,

- Consent,

- Record Keeping,

- Teamworking and Skillmix, or

- Ethics



Because ethics is now a GDC recommended core subject for CPD, any time spent developing a project for this category would count towards your unverified CPD totals.



All members of the dental team are eligible to enter, whatever stage of their career they have reached:


- Dental care professionals (undergraduate, postgraduate or practising)

- Dental undergraduates

- Dentists (postgraduate or practising)



Dental Protection, the world s leader in indemnity and risk management support for the dental team has renewed their longstanding partnership with Sch??lke, the European leader in infection control, to sponsor The Premier Awards for 2009. The event recognises achievements in developing awareness and the effective management of risk within clinical dentistry.



This year's Awards will be presented during The Premier Symposium to be held 28 November 2008 at Kings College, London. Application forms and leaflets are now available from Dental Protection.


Notes



1. Dental Protection Limited (DPL) is an autonomous but wholly owned subsidiary of the Medical Protection Society (MPS), the world's largest professional indemnity organisation for doctors, dentists and other healthcare professionals. Dental Protection has over 53,000 dental members in 70 countries around the globe and it is the only UK based protection organisation to have this international scope. In the UK, 70% of dentists are members.



2. MPS is not an insurance company. All benefits of membership are discretionary as set out in the Memorandum and Articles of Association.



3. An application form and full terms and conditions are available by contacting Sarah Garry at Dental Protection on 020 7399 1339 or by emailing _ HYPERLINK "mailto:sarah.cunliffemps.uk" _sarah.garrymps.uk_



Further details of the Premier Awards and Premier Symposium are available on the Dental Protection website, dentalprotection


The closing date for entries to this year's Premier Awards is 1 September 2009.



6. Last years winners were:


Undergraduate Award

1st prize

Mary McGeown, Kirsty Killen, Leo McElroy, Zohaib Ali,Joanne McDaid, Naledi Mosamia, Geraldine McDermott, Dublin Dental School

"Autoclave monitoring and cross infection control in the dental surgery."



2nd prize

Emma Hutchinson, Leeds Dental School

"An audit of experiences and attitudes towards sharps injuries
at Leeds Dental Institute."



Postgraduate Award

1st prize

Kushal Gadhia

"Team working in the management of pain in oral and maxillofacial in-patients."



2nd prize

Dominic Masson and Eimear O'Callaghan

"The knowledge and attitudes of North Wales healthcare professionals to bisphosphonate related osteochemonecrosis of the jaws."

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