The Premier Awards – originally created to reward dental professionals who recognise the importance of patient safety within the dental practice – is celebrating its 10th anniversary.
Throughout their 10-year history, dental professionals from a variety of specialisms have received one of the prestigious awards.
With a total prize fund of £6,000, the Premier Awards offer one of the largest cash prizes for dental risk management projects in the UK.
There are now six subject areas available for submitting entries.
• Ethics and professionalism
• Record keeping
• Cross-infection control
• Teamworking and skillmix
• Consent and communication
• Health and safety
All members of the dental team are eligible to enter, whatever stage of their career they have reached:
• Dental care professionals (undergraduate, postgraduate or practising)
• Dental undergraduates
• Dentists (postgraduate or practising)
Indemnity and risk management advisors, Dental Protection, have renewed their longstanding partnership with Schülke, the infection control experts, to present the Premier Awards for 2010.
Once again the event will recognise individual achievements in developing awareness and the effective management of risk within clinical dentistry.
This year's awards will be presented during The Premier Symposium to be held at Kings College, London on Saturday 4 December 2010.
Application forms and leaflets are now available from Dental Protection.
The closing date for entries to this year's Premier Awards is 3 September 2010.
Winners of the Premier Awards 2009 were:
Undergraduate prize
1st Richard Beckwith
Difficulties in obtaining valid consent in clinical dentistry.
2nd Rachel Ingle
A comparison of HTM01-05 guidance with the sterilisation of reusable instruments in the Dental Practice Unit, University of Sheffield.
Postgraduate prize
1st James Roberts
An audit to assess the cleanliness and storage of decontaminated dental instruments.
2nd Richard Holliday
Dental record keeping and the role of oral cancer screening in the dental access centre.
DCP prize
1st Michelle Mitchell
Ethical considerations in 21st century dental hygiene.
2nd Amy Wilkins
Extending the role of the dental nurse in the orthodontic practice: the patients' perspective.
