Premier Awards celebrate 10th anniversary
Dental Protection and schülke have been delighted with the success of this major educational event in the dental calendar. This year the two sponsors are particularly pleased to announce the 10th anniversary of thePremier Awards.
The Premier Awards were originally created to reward dental professionals who recognise the importance of patient safety within the dental practice. Throughout their ten-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 nowsix subject areas availablefor 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)
Dental Protection, the world’s leader in indemnity and risk management support for the dental team has renewed their longstanding partnership with Schülke, the European leader in infection control, 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.
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Media contact
Sarah Garry
Dental Protection
33 Cavendish Square
London W1G 0PS
T: 020 7399 1339E:
Notes for Editors
1.Dental Protection Limited (DPL) is an autonomous but wholly owned subsidiary of the Medical Protection Society (MPS), the world’s largest professional indemnity organisation for doctors, dentists and other healthcare professionals. Dental Protection has over 55,000 dental members in 70 countries around the globe and it is the only UK based protection organisation to have this international scope. In the UK, 70% of dentists are members.
2.MPS is not an insurance company. All benefits of membership are discretionary as set out in the Memorandum and Articles of Association.
3.An application form and full terms and conditions are available by contacting SarahGarry at Dental Protection on 020 7399 1339 or by emailing
- Further details of the Premier Awards and Premier Symposium are available on the Dental Protection website,
- The closing date for entries to this year’s Premier Awards is 3 September 2010.
6.Winners of the Premier Awards 2009 were:
Undergraduate prize
1stRichardBeckwith
Difficulties in obtaining valid consent in clinical dentistry.
2nd RachelIngle
A comparison of HTM01-05 guidance with the sterilisation of reusable instruments in the Dental Practice Unit, University of Sheffield.
Postgraduate prize
1st JamesRoberts
An audit to assess the cleanliness and storage of decontaminated dental instruments.
2nd RichardHolliday
Dental record keeping and the role of oral cancer screening in the dental access centre.
DCP prize
1stMichelleMitchell
Ethical considerations in 21st century dental hygiene.
2ndAmyWilkins
Extending the role of the dental nurse in the orthodontic practice: the patients' perspective.