title: Engaging dental professionals in NHS leadership - the challenges, the opportunities and the risks.
abstract: Leadership training in dentistry and the wider NHS is often overlooked or seen as an unnecessary distraction from front line duties. Dentists themselves are often reluctant to adopt formal leadership learning due to the way work is structured and rewarded. So, what is it like for a dentist to undertake leadership training and how can the gap be bridged between the need for highly trained leaders in dentistry and the reticence of front line professionals to take time away from practice?
authors.affiliation: Directorate of Multi-professional Dental Education, Health Education North East, Waterfront 4, Goldcrest Way, Newburn, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE15 8NY.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ford
mesh_terms: D003815:Dentists; D007857:Leadership; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006113:United Kingdom