title: Health authorities, GDPs and TECs: a partnership for general dental practice development.
abstract: Major changes will occur in primary dental care over the next 5 to 10 years. These changes present a series of possible opportunities and threats to dental practices. This paper reports on how the health authority, the local training and enterprise council (TEC) and five general dental practices in North Cheshire worked collaboratively to support the development of the practices. Health authorities and dentists should be aware of the possibility of working with TECs to support general dental practice development.
authors.affiliation: North Cheshire Health, Runcorn.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tickle
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Whitehall
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Williams
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D003752:Dental Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000639:trends; D004739:England; D005792:General Practice, Dental / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000639:trends; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011215:Practice Management, Dental / Q000458:organization & administration; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D017149:Private Sector / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000639:trends; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000639:trends