BDA Advice Sheets
The following advisory publications are available free of charge to members of the British Dental Association.
The full set of advice sheets is available to non-members at around £100.
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Practice Management
A1 Planning permission
A2 Buying and selling a practice
A3 Health and safety law for the dental practice
A4 Thinking independently: Changing the balance of your practice
A5 Fee assignments
A6 Promoting your practice
A7 Associateship agreements
A8 Employing an assistant in general dental practice
A10 Partnership agreements
A11 Radiation in dentistry
A12 Control of cross-infection in dentistry
A13 Locumships in general dental practice
A14 Dentists' maternity arrangements and pay
A15 Computers in dental practice
A16 BS EN ISO 9002 - Quality Systems
A17 Practice management checklist
Ethical and Legal
B1 Dental Ethics
B2 Data protection
B3 Giving Evidence
B4 What to do when a practitioner dies
B5 Discipline committee arrangements
B7 Practice inspections
B8 Did you know? Essential legislation for general practitioners
B9 Prescribing in general dental practice
Financial
C1 Sickness and accident insurance
C2 Collecting money from patients
C3 Business plans
C4 Guide to private dental schemes
C5 Introduction to taxation
Employing Staff
D1 Contracts of Employment
D2 Conditions of employment for dental surgery assistants
D3 The employment of dental hygienists
D4 Conditions of employment for dental technicians
D5 Advice on the direction of dental therapists
D6 Pay for dental surgery assistants in general practice
D7 Pay for dental hygienists in general practice
D8 Pay for dental technicians in general practice
D9 Employees' maternity arrangements and pay
D10 Redundancy
D11 Dismissal
D12 Staff recruitment
D13 Discrimination in employment
D14 Violence at work
Miscellaneous
E1 Working abroad
E2 Questions and answers
E3 Vocational training in the General Dental Services
E4 Guidance notes for part-time teachers
Students
S1 Help with overseas electives
S2 Successful interviews
S3 Getting an interview
S4 Which way now? Careers in dentistry
S5 Student Finances
The BDA have a variety of information sheets from lists of Accountants and Solicitors, to notes on
vocational training, peer review, private dental care plans and how to make a claim through the
small claims court. If they haven’t the information you need, they will try to compile it for you.
Other Services
Leaflets are also available on using the BDA Member Logo on the BDA Loan, insurance and
financial services through the BMA Services Limited. Three pads of 100 medical history sheets can
be purchased for a small charge.
At Your Service
A directory of BDA services and whom to contact
Should any topic of interest to you not be included in our advice sheet list, or should any
sheets be under revision or in preparation, please do not hesitate to telephone or write to the
Membership Services Department, who will be pleased to advice you individually.
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