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The most important blog of all...

Colin Campbell
by Colin Campbell on 22/09/20 18:00

... This blog was never for political statement or for sales or to become a key person of influence or any of that old sh*t.

As I reach the 2500 blogs posted mark today, I get the opportunity to write perhaps the most important blog I’ve ever written.

I received a text from my friend Dominic O’Hooley on Sunday morning asking me to contribute and sign up to a petition for change.org, the link to the petition is here and will be repeated several times through the blog.

The petition is simply to ensure that the next chair of the General Dental Council should be a dental professional.

I signed up immediately and chucked in some money that I could afford (to make sure that it gets spread as widely as possible).

Not only should the next chair of the GDC be a dental professional, it should be a dentist and a qualified dentist and one who is continuing to practice right up to the point in which they take the position (ideally one that continues to practice after that).

It should be an individual who’s registered and one who is subject to the same level of scrutiny that the rest of the dentists who are registered with the GDC are.

It should not be a dentist because they’re better than anyone else, it should just be a dentist because they take more responsibility than anyone else by the nature of their job.

The reason that this is the most important blog I’ve written in 2500 blogs is that it is the one which could encourage you to take a step which would make the greatest difference to the profession in the last 10 years.

From the time in which the GDC had a chair who was a ‘non-dentist’ we have seen a massive paradigm shift towards heavy handed, scare mongering regulation of the highest possible order.

That is not to say that things have not changed over the past few years but that is after what must be looked upon as the worst period in the history of dentistry for such difficulty.

It is not that the person who takes over being a registered dentist will change things, but it is that they will understand what it is to be a registered dentist and to be regulated.

The very best of people are able to step into the shoes of others with empathy and insight and kindness and curiosity but sadly the very best of people are rare to come by and if we do not get a registered dentist in the position we are unlikely to get one of the other type.

This is the start of a process leading to September 2021 when there will be an opportunity to influence the selection of a new chairperson of the GDC.

If I were you I would score out all of the other jobs on the list that hangs up on the fridge in your kitchen and make this the most important one (if you’re a dentist or someone who lives with a dentist).

This is genuinely your chance to save peoples lives from the burden of over responsibility which drives people at worse to the most serious of consequences.

God only knows that we need the very best of leaders at this time and 12 months from now we will have the opportunity to select one of those leaders to lead a regulator.

The petition from change.org is here.

Just for good measure it’s also here.

This will not be the last you hear of this here but I hope that the British Dental Association, the British Association of Private Dentistry and every other body with any influence jumps onto this bandwagon as quickly as possible.

Sign the petition, chuck some money at the petition and then please share this centrement as widely as is humanly possible.

Get 20 more people to sign the petition and ask their spouses to sign the petition too.

This is the most important work of our age to date.

 

Blog Post Number - 2500 

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