Recognising And Responding To Abuse In Children Young People And Adults At Risk. Are You Fully Prepared To Handle Cases Of Abuse That Are Disclosed Or Noticed At Your Practice?

Although it is difficult to accept child and adult abuse does happen and is unfortunately an all too common occurrence. Any child or adult regardless of their age, gender, race, religion, culture or social background may be at risk of physical, sexual or psychological harm and a potential victim of abuse. There is however evidence to suggest that incidents of abuse can be reduced. This presentation will bring you up to date on the latest guidelines and provide you with the necessary guidance in how to deal with the important aspects of safeguarding.

Learning objectives:

• Recognise abuse using 4 areas of analyses
• Avoid common mistakes made in known safeguarding cases
• Understand the barriers to share information
• How to respond to disclosures of abuse
• Understand the role of the safeguarding lead
• How to avoid allegations of abuse in your practice

This talk satisfies the GDC’s learning outcomes:

A – Effective communication with patients, the dental team, and others across dentistry, including when obtaining consent, dealing with complaints, and raising concerns when patients are at risk

B – Effective management of self, and effective management of others or effective work with others in the dental team, in the interests of patients at all times; providing constructive leadership where appropriate

D – Maintenance of skills, behaviours and attitudes which maintain patient confidence in you and the dental profession and put patients’ interests first

Kevin Morgan

Biography

After qualifying from Manchester University Pat took up a resident oral surgery post prior to joining a general dental practice in Manchester as an Associate. She went on to combine her role in practice with teaching oral surgery at the Dental School. In 1982 Pat became a partner in a general practice in Surrey and continued teaching oral surgery at Guy’s Hospital. In 1986 she started up a new practice in Berkshire.

Pat was a founder member of the Denplan team and held the post of Deputy Chief Dental Officer from 1987 to 2003. Her role at Denplan included the development and implementation of Denplan’s much respected quality assurance and clinical governance programmes and she was instrumental in developing Denplan’s Excel Accreditation Programme.

In 2003 Pat was appointed Group Clinical Director at Oasis Dental Care, a post she held for 7 years.

In 2010 Pat co-founded Apolline with the aim of providing a complete dental compliance solution to dental practices and dental groups of all sizes, offering innovative software, in-practice support and online and in-practice training. She has lectured widely on all compliance based subjects, including on safeguarding. Pat combines her role as CEO of Apolline with being Chief Dental Officer at Dentex Healthcare.