It is well accepted that most clinical mistakes in dentistry and surgery are due to human error. It is often not the technical ability that lets the clinician down, but the non-technical skills needed for situation awareness, decision making, teamworking, communication and task management.
How can learning about these skills improve performance? Can you recognise and manage stress when working? How can good non-technical skills optimise good clinical outcomes and patient safety?
Elevate the effectiveness of your dental team and dental trainees by teaching them the non-technical cognitive and social skills that underpin individual and team performance. Learn how assessing non-technical skills can support and develop the ability to deliver best practice and safe patient care.
- Learn from DeNTS how better non-technical skills can deliver safer patient care
- Elevate your team by training them in non-technical skills
- Improve the non-technical skills of your dental trainees using DeNTS
- Struggling with stress when working? See how improving your non-technical skills can help
- Are you teaching your trainees about the non-technical skills that can improve their clinical practice?
- Find out how good non-clinical skills improve patient safety
- Can you operate more safely in your clinical practice?
- Can you afford not to know about the impact of non-technical skills as a dentist?
- Are you taking any risks if you ignore or don’t understand non-technical skills?
Find out more in our DeNTS brochure at the bottom of this page!
"I was never taught about the relevance of good non-technical skills for delivering better clinical outcomes and safer patient care. Understanding how situation awareness, decision making, communication, task management, teamworking and managing stress can impact on clinical performance transforms how you work. DeNTS allows dentists and trainees to reflect upon and develop their non-technical skills in a safe environment." - Dr Sarah Manton, FDT Director
In light of the below, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh has issued a statement regarding its concerns:
We are concerned over reports that the UK Government is looking at removing information on the number of medical and healthcare professionals it plans to train over the next decade. Given the high number of NHS staff vacancies and unprecedented demand on services, we urgently need a funded workforce plan with numbers.
There is currently no official public data on the number of healthcare staff needed to meet that demand, now or into the future. Without credible up to date numbers, the system cannot plan.
Whilst we share the Health and Care Committee’s view that workforce planning should be overseen by an independent body, a national assessment of the healthcare staff numbers is urgently needed now to ensure the NHS can meet its current and future demand. This should then be backed by a robust commitment to provide the necessary funding.
Workforce is the biggest challenge facing the NHS, so such a commitment will go some way in putting an under-resourced and over-stretched NHS workforce back on a more sustainable footing.