North Wales LDC seeks help with survey
Dear LDC Secretary,
Following our presentation at LDC Officials Day in
November, we are circulating a short survey to the LDCs to ask about the digital
forms of communication that they use with their members and how things may have
altered in response to the COVID pandemic.
We would be very grateful if you
could complete the survey, which is accessible via the link below:
Please click here
This will hopefully enable us to obtain a national view as to the methods the different LDCs utilise when communicating with their members. The information gathered will then be anonymised, collated and available to all to act as reference point for the individual LDCs.Your help is very much appreciated.
northwalesldcproject@gmail.com - Email address for any correspondence.
Kind regards,
Callum Smith
North Wales Local Dental Committee
A Successful Online Conference
A message from out-going Conference Chair, Leah Farrell
I am very pleased that the Agenda Committee and I were able to deliver the
LDC Conference this year despite being in the middle of a pandemic. We had to
act fast and invent a way of producing it online.
I am extremely grateful to all the
invited speakers who rallied round and made such great contributions. The
proposers of motions got on board with the new format enthusiastically and this
really made the day.
Despite some technical challenges we were able to
deliver a full agenda and debate 32 motions.
Thank you to everybody who
attended for embracing the virtual challenge.
Copies of presentations are
available to access here and details of motions passed can be found
here, along
with
election results.
Conference footage is now available
here
Congratulations to the following
colleagues who were elected to positions:
- Dan Cook (Chair-elect)
- Peter Hodgkinson (Honorary Treasurer)
- Jonathan Randall and Alexander Bruce Porteous (Honorary Auditors)
- Roger Levy (Conference Representative to the GDPC)
- Zoe Connelly (Member to Conference Agenda Committee)
- Mark Haigh (Member to British Dental Guild Board of Managers)
Best wishes,
Leah Farrell
LDC Conference Chair 2020
A message from the incoming Conference Chair, Stuart Allan
Thank you Leah for delivering a conference against ridiculous odds, the online version was different and certainly gives us a steer for the future.
I look forward to some precedented times having had to live through months of unprecedented ones! We will have a conference next year, the precise nature of which will depend on circumstances, watch this space.
Though none of us would have wished the crisis resulting from the Covid pandemic on the world in general, or our profession, it does mean that the widely derided UDA system has been removed; our challenge this year is to ensure it is replaced by something better. We need to swing behind the negotiating team at the GDPC now more than ever.
Farewell Vijay Sudra and thank you for all your input on the Agenda Committee over the past three years. Welcome Zoe Connelly and congratulations Dan Cook on assuming the Chair-elect role.
See you at LDC Officials’ day! Save the date - Friday 27 November 2020 (ONLINE).
Stuart Allan
LDC Conference Chair 2021
If you have any queries following this event please contact Fiona Feltham, Events Manager (020 7563 6876, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
