It’s a promising start and the culmination of a lot of hard work by Jenine, Angie, Martin, Mark, and myself and many others I’m unaware of.

To go from being told the NSW Dental Technicians Registration funds were being offered to the Dental Board of Australia as a gift to all other strands of dentistry,

to having them set aside some money (collected from our members for the last 35 years) for an education Trust for Dental Technicians

to finally being told the Education and Research Trust is also for NSW Dental Prosthetists is a great outcome that took ;

• a lot of passionate arguing from Martin
• a lot of political behind the scenes work from Mark
• many letters to the Minister, the NSW Dental Technicians Registration Board and ministerial advisors,
• a meeting with the Health Minister Carmel Tebbutt
• text messages , phone calls to ministerial advisors
• a meeting with the Iain Martin from NSW Health
• a phone call to John Lockwood to argue our case.
• and a lot of hard work from Jenine including finishing a draft review of one particular letter at Two AM

I think everyone in the executive can be proud of our record in the last 11 months. The fights not over and it will be our goal over the next twelve months to have this money set aside to help develop of a degree course for our profession.

We can make a real difference to the future of our profession, to our scope of practice and to the career opportunities of our members.

Regards

Anthony

Carmel Tebbutt MP

Deputy Premier | Minister for Health

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Mr A Boyle
Secretary 
Australian Dental Prosthetists Association (NSW) Inc.,
Suite 7, 2 St John's Avenue
GORDON NSW 2072

Dear Mr Boyle

I refer to your representations on behalf of the Dental Technicians and Dental Prosthetists in NSW with particular reference to the funds being accrued in an Education and Research Account to be used to improve educational opportunities and future career paths for New South Wales Dental Prosthetists following the implementation of national registration.

I have been advised that the Dental Board of NSW has discussed aspects in relation to the setting up a designated Education and Research Funds for Dental Prosthetists and Dental Technicians, once the national scheme commences.

Thank you for bringing your concerns to my notice.

Yours sincerely

[signed]
Carmel Tebbutt MP 
Deputy Premier
Minister for Health

Your Responsibilities as a Health Practitioner

In March 2008 the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) decided to establish a single national registration and accreditation system for 10 health professions, due for introduction as of 1 July 2010. As a dental prosthetist there are a number of factors that we need to be aware of if we are to continue to practice past the 1st July. The ADPA have put together this following information to give you an idea of your responsibilities in this the era of National Registration.

Firstly the Dental Board of Australia, DBA, has now been established under the Health Practitioner Regulation (Administrative Arrangements) National Law Act 2008.

The DBA is made up of a number of clinicians and public members and together they have established the new registration standards under which you will now practice and the guidelines through which you will act. These standards have been approved through the Ministerial Council and as such must be complied with when they take effect on 1 July 2010.

A single administrative body, the Australian Health Practitioner Registration Agency, AHPRA, will be supporting the boards and the implementation of the national scheme.

AHPRA will process all applications received after 1 July 2010 under the new registration standards.

Click here to see a summary of the Standards
Click here to see a summary of the Codes and Guidelines
Click here to see FAQ regarding new Registration Procedures