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Following the retirement of Barry Cockcroft in February of this year, NHS England has announced that his successor will be Sara Hurley BDS(UBrist) MFGDP(UK) MSc(UCL) MA(KCL). Sara will serve as principal dental adviser and the professional head of dental staff in England. Sara will act as a senior member of the Medical Directorate, and work collaboratively to improve outcomes for patients, and champion the role of dentists and dentistry within the health system.

 

 

 

 

 

Ministerial responsibility for dentistry announced

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The Rt Hon Alistair Burt MP  has been given responsibility for primary care at the Department of Health. This incorporates dentistry and ophthalmic responsibilities and includes GP contract reform, Out of Hours reform, pharmacy and primary care commissioning policy. He entered Parliament for the first time in 1983 (as MP for Bury North until 1997) and is now the Conservative MP for north east Bedfordshire.

Alistair also has responsibility for older people, adult social care, mental health and physical and learning disabilities. He is an experienced parliamentarian having been minister at the Department of Social Security from 1992 to 1997 and a Foreign Office minister in the Coalition Government.

He is not the only minister with responsibilities covering dentistry:

• Jane Ellison MP returns to her role as parliamentary under-secretary of state for Public Health, which includes health improvement and preventive measures and makes fluoridation her responsibility.
• Ben Gummer MP, the newly appointed minister for care quality will focus mainly on hospitals, but also has patient experience and safety in his portfolio. As such he looks into complaints and the ombudsman.

• The (soon to be Lord) David Prior from the CQC will speak on Health matters in the House of Lords and is minister for ‘NHS productivity’. His brief includes NHS England, economic regulation, NHS and DH finance and efficiency in the healthcare system, all of which will impact on NHS dentistry.