Council Sub Committees

Primary Care OS Group

BAOS council comprises Oral surgeons from a broad background. This sub-group is comprised of Oral Surgeons engaged predominantly in the delivery of primary care Oral Surgery. This group have been in dialogue with commissioners and helped to deliver a successful BAOS Initiated Commissioner’s Day. They are developing recommendations for national tariffs. They are: This group would be well placed to advise on all issues pertaining to primary care oral surgery. Contact with them can be established via the BAOS administration team. Links https://www.england.nhs.uk/commissioning/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/09/guid-comms-oral.pdf

Secondary Care Oral Surgery

This group consists of: The secondary care group have a broad experience of Secondary Care Oral Surgery. In its membership are Consultant and SAS grades (Staff grades, Associate Specialists and Speciality Doctors/dentists). They are well placed to advise on matters pertaining to the current delivery of secondary care oral surgery. Through this group cross links to the BDA and BMA have been established. Useful links https://www.bma.org.uk/advice/employment/contracts/sas-contracts/sas-charters https://www.bma.org.uk/advice/employment/contracts/sas-contracts/autonomy-for-sas-grade-doctors

Managed Clinical Networks (MCN)

  Paul is chair in a managed clinical network for Oral Surgery (MCN Chair) in his region. MCN chairs are responsible for the implementation and quality assurance for local oral surgery delivery.  A great deal of discussion in ongoing still regarding tiered provision of care (especially at level 2). The role of MCN’s are evolving as the delivery of nationally commissioned oral surgery develops. Useful links:

Trainee Representatives

 
  • Callum Wemyss - Trainee Representative  on  Council (1 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2022)
  • Alex Orchard - Deputy Trainee Representative (1 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2022)
  • Richa Arya - Dental Core Trainee / Junior Representative (1 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2022)
  Recent discussions for trainees have included:
  • “Designing a CV and things to think of whilst in DF1/DCT posts.”
  • “National recruitment and how to prepare”.
  • “Getting published: how to write different types of paper, gaining support developing surveys/abstracts and how to structure them.”
  • “The landscape of oral surgery: where we've come from and where we are going”
  • “Understanding commissioning...”
  • “Setting up in practice:”
  • “Dento-legal pitfalls”
BAOS administration are able to forward any enquiries to this subsection of Council.      

Antimicrobial Stewardship

Tara Renton is leading on this for BAOS. Anti-microbial stewardship is a very worthy area for development and BAOS are proud to be involved with its ongoing development. Tara is working with Nick Palmer and Noha Seoudi to develop guidance on this important matter.

CAST

For Consultants and Senior Trainers. Chair is Edmund Bailey and vice-chair Kate Taylor

Careers

BAOS are pleased to have the following member allocated to this important area. Julie is happy to advise on oral surgery pertaining to primary, secondary care and within academia. Contact is via the BAOS administration team.

Research

The BAOS are lucky to have a fine academic pedigree on council. BAOS would also direct aspiring authors to the Oral Surgery Journal website for submissions (Wiley-Blackwell).

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