Workforce - how many dental professionals are enough?

Welcome and introduction
Joanne Rewcastle, GDC Associate Director, Communications and Engagement

Workforce challenges and opportunities - setting the scene
Jason Wong, CDO England

• Setting the context of workforce challenges: the wider healthcare sector and dentistry

• How does the UK compare to others?

• The challenges facing NHS, community and private dentistry

• What do we as leaders need to do to address this

Working patterns data – what does it tell leaders and how will we use it?
Stefan Czerniawski, Executive Director of Strategy, GDC

Introduction: provide the context and high-level insights from the dentist and DCP data and overview of the changing nature of the register. (15 minutes)

Five-minute slots from stakeholders summarising what they have taken from the survey results.

• Neil Sikka, Bupa

• Martin Woodrow, BDA

• Fiona Ellwood, SBDN

• James Neilson, BACDT

• Fiona Sandom, BADT

Questions and thoughts from the floor (10 minutes)

Needs-based workforce planning and systems thinking Paul Brocklehurst, Consultant in Dental Public Health and Epidemiologist

• What is needs-based workforce planning?

• Why epidemiology is important

• Systems approach to introducing new models of working

Workforce planning in the NHS
James Spencer, Dental Dean

• How NHSE Workforce Training and Education have undertaken workforce planning over recent years since the start of the Advancing Dental Care Review

• The current workforce, the current distribution of commissioned training posts and the basis for distribution models

Panel discussion 1 – How many dental professionals are enough?
15-minute table discussion, followed by 30-minute Q&A facilitated by Adrian Thorp, Community Dental Services

Panellists:

• Simon Thackeray, BAPD

• Professor David Felix, NES

• Dr Debbie Reed, BADN

• Shalin Mehra, Rodericks

• Caroline Lappin, CDO Northern Ireland

How working patterns intelligence allowed us to understand our own data
Bernard Horan, Senior Analytical Manager, NHS England

• How the extra understanding it provides has been valuable

Tom Whiting, Chief Executive, GDC

Panel discussion 2 – What action can dental leaders take to inform workforce discussions?
15-minute table discussion, followed by 30-minute Q&A facilitated by Jane Luker, NHS England.

Panellists:

• John Darby, COPDEND

• Neil Carmichael, ADG

• Miranda Steeples, BSDHT

• Kirstie Moons, HEIW

• Eddie Crouch, BDA

Summary and close
Simon Thornton-Wood, College of General Dentistry and DLN Working Group member

Refreshments provided