North Western Branch - Dento-legal dilemmas and clinical complications in general dental practice

What to expect

Join the North Western Branch on Wednesday 18 June for a buffet dinner and chance to network with your peers, followed by a lecture by Raj Rattan MBE who will discuss dento-legal dilemmas in general dental practice including clinical complications and tackling issues which arise from an NHS and private mix.

Timings

18:30 Welcome by Shalini Kanagasingam, President, North Western Branch

           Address by Dave Cottam, President, BDA

18:45 Buffet dinner

19:30 Lecture - Raj Rattan MBE

20:45 End

Learning objectives

• To discuss the most effective risk management strategies in general dental practice
• To identify and discuss current dento-legal dilemmas
• To offer dento-legal solutions in everyday practice. 

Development outcome

C

Meet the speaker

Raj Rattan’s portfolio career includes over 30 years’ clinical experience. He owned and operated a small practice group and was Strategic Association Dean at the London Deanery. He has been an examiner for the FGDP and is a visiting professor of general dental practice at College of Medicine and Dentistry.

He has provided consultancy services to public and private sector organisations including the NHS, Denplan, dental corporates and the Department of Health where he previously served as a Policy Adviser. He is the author/co-author of a number of textbooks including a textbook on Law and Ethics. He in an international speaker on a variety of topics relating to general dental practice.

He was a part-time senior dento-legal consultant at Dental Protection before taking up his current role as Dental Director in 2016. In 2008, he was awarded an MBE for services to dentistry.