CDPH post confirmations

15 July 2013
Volume 29 · Issue 5

Long-overdue confirmations that gaps in the Consultant in Dental Public Health (CDPH) workforce are to be filled have been given a cautious welcome.

A letter from Public Health England (PHE) to BDA Dental Public Health committee chair Christopher Allen has confirmed that 45 permanent posts and 44 12-month contract posts previously frozen by PHE are now to be recruited. Those recruitments will reduce the inequity in the distribution of England’s CDPH workforce for the immediate year, although the longer-term future of the posts recruited as 12-month contracts remains uncertain.

The recruitments follow much BDA lobbying stressing the importance of ensuring the expertise of CDPHs is available in all areas. The BDA campaign ran during the passage of the Health and Social Care Bill and has continued since it was passed. In May 2013 Allen wrote to Public Health England reiterating the importance of advertising the posts and warning a failure to do so could jeopardise a Government commitment to improve child oral health.

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