Dental Nurse Training

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Dental Nurse Training

• West Midlands Region

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Background

• All Dental Nurses will need to be registered with
  the GDC or on an approved training programme by
  July 2008
• They can register if they have an accredited
  qualification or if they have sufficient
  experience in the workplace.

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Specialist Provider Network involvement

• Members of the SPN who had Dental Nurse Training
  provision were invited to an exploratory meeting
  at the SHA on 6th November 2007
• These providers shared details of their
  experience and agreed to form the basis of a
  regional consortium
• A further meeting was planned for 29th November
  and all LSC funded providers of Dental Nurse
  Training in the West Midland were invited to
  attend and to become members of the consortium.

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SPN Continued

• Matthew Boulton College hosted the meeting and
  Terms of Reference for the consortium were
  developed.
• A budget was provided by the SHA to cover
  refreshments and the attendees discussed how we
  might use 80,000 that had been allocated by the
  SHA to support training leading to registration.

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Dental Nurse Consortium

• The consortium agreed to move towards offering
  NVQs across the region although in the short term
  the NEBDN certificate may still be offered
• Materials would be developed to support students
  undertaking the NVQ, pre course materials and a
  Web based VLE would be commissioned.
• NVQ assessors would be appointed in areas that
  had no NVQ provision currently
• All consortium members were invited to tender for
  these projects

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Dental Nurse Consortium

• JIF funding has been made available to support
  Dental Nurse training. This includes a refund of
  the employer payment for the level 3 trial and
  tuition fees for students in areas that have no
  provision.
• All members of the consortium need to link with
  their Dental Lead on the PCT to promote the work
  that we are doing and to ensure that there is
  sufficient funding for training set aside in
  budgets.

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Dental Nurse Consortium

• Next steps
• Partnership working between providers who are
  setting up NVQ centres for IVing etc.
• Development of the pre course materials, course
  materials and VLE
• Ensuring access to funding through the JIF for
  Dental Nurses who need to register with the GDC
• Monitoring of training provision across the
  region to provide equality of opportunity to all
  dental nurses who need to be on a training
  programme
• To consider progression opportunities to
  Foundation Degrees and other HE courses

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Dental Nurse Consortium

• Questions??