Continual Professional Development

The General Dental Council (GDC) has introduced compulsory CPD for dentists, and after the introduction of the Statutory Register for dental nurses it will soon be compulsory for dental nurses to do a certain number of hours CPD per year.

We will be running & from 2006 we have been running CPD courses for the entire dental team.

The courses are run either at Tempdent or in your dental practice.

The CPD courses offered by Tempdent include;

• Cross Infection Control CPD update
• Cross Infection Control HTM01-05 Consultation
• Oral Health Trends
• Patient and staff care management
• Reflective Practice
• Orthodontics
• Radiography update
• Health and safety cpd
• Health and safety consultancy
• CPR with advanced life support
• Automated External Defibrillator
• Medical Emergencies
• First Aid appointed person
• First Aid at work
• Manual Handling

• You do not need to attend these courses as part of a team.
• You do not need to be a qualified dental nurse to do the above CPD courses.
• You will receive an attendance certificate at the end of each course which you will be able to use as evidence of CPD training.