Wilfred Fish Lecture

These lectures take place every two years and were founded in honour of the first President of the GDC, Sir Wilfred Fish, who was first elected to the Dental Board of the United Kingdom in 1939.

2006 Shipman -Where now for the regulators?
Dame Janet Smith biography

2004 The end of deference – where now for the professions?
Niall Dickson biography

2002 The Tooth Fairy in the Dock   
Professor Margaret Brazier

2000 Educating Dentists - The Value of the Research Environment
Professor Per-Olof Glantz

1998 Standards in Public Life  
Lord Nolan of Brasted

1996 Self Regulation: Dentists, Discipline and Defence
Lord Woolf of Barnes

1994 Education and the Quality of Care   
Dame Barbara Clayton

1992 Dentistry and Anaesthesia     
Professor Spence

1990 The Hunterian Tradition in Dentistry    
Professor Bertram Cohen

1988 The Dentist and The Socially Secure Society  
Dr Heribert Pohl

1986 Professions, Politics and Parkinson’s Law  
General Sir Hugh Beach

1984 The Professions: Red Light or Green 
Baroness Seear

1982 The Professional Man as a Leader  
John Garnett

1980 Professionalism: A Way of Life  
Sir Monty Finniston

1979 The Milking Shed      
Sir Hugh Casson

1978 A Profession in its Relationship to Society
J R Tomlinson

1977 Professional Responsibility    
Lord Redcliffe-Maud

1976 Dentists and Doctors: The Concept of the Professional Man    
Sir Alec Merrison

1975  What Makes a Profession?    
Lord Wolfenden