Recently I was invited to go and visit the new IDH Academy in Central Manchester and I saw a vision of the future.
IDH is a proper business now, they are not messing about anymore. They are identifying the training needs of the thousands of dentists and team members and have built a facility in Manchester which is true to that. However, the real clever aspect to this is the large NHS practice on one side and the state of the art private practice on the other with the shared facilities in the middle. So decon and imaging facilities are shared between the NHS and private side and this may well be the future of dentistry. On top of this (literally) is one of the best dental education facilities I have seen and if they get a handle on this properly (and I have been invited to help out with that) it could be a truly exceptional place which improves the care for patients enormously and this is what we all have to believe.
I have some history with IDH myself but on this occasion I applaud them for a facility which is truly visionary and I think may be game changing in dentistry.
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