Welcome from the editor

Welcome

TO YOUR JULY 2021 ISSUE

By Matt Everatt F.O.T.A I Editor

Welcome to your July

edition of The Dental Technician Magazine.

Last month I wrote about our ‘Freedom Day’ on the 21st of June, which clearly didn’t happen. Prime Minister Harold Wilson once said ‘A week in politics is a long time.’ As I sit writing this welcome, we have seen the resignation of our Health Secretary and appointment of the incoming Sajid Javid. Political allegiances aside, as a Healthcare Professional, you can’t help but feel miffed at the rule makers. If we were flagrantly breaking the rules/laws set by our Secretary of State for Health we would likely be faced with being struck off the professional register. Let us move on!

I was kindly invited to present the first webinar on behalf of the collaboration between ProDental CPD and The Dental Technician Magazine. I write a little more about this experience in the magazine. I would really urge fellow technicians to come forward to speak and deliver a session. As a group of professionals, our access to CPD is not the best. We need to help each other and what is better, it is free CPD!

In general, I am hearing really positive things within our sector of the dental profession. Business seems to be thriving for the majority of us. The biggest crisis seems to be the ability to attract new recruits. The June edition had an article by Julie Barker, Academy Leader at Sheffield College. Students have had a really rough time with the pandemic, not only limiting their training time in college, but accessing work experience has been almost impossible. If we want to get new blood into the profession, we as a collective need to come together to help these students gain valuable experience to enable them to achieve a registrable qualification.

I do hope you continue to enjoy the features and content of the magazine. As we speed our way through another year, we hope that July brings a new hope for freedom as well as the sunshine.

Please do get in touch if you would like to contribute any content to the magazine and the future webinar sessions.