FEDCAR
La FEDCAR est la Fédération des Autorités Compétentes et Régulateurs Dentaires Européens À propos
This summer in the EU the EU4Health 2021-2027 programme has been called to focus on preventive health, while at the international level the World Health Organisation (WHO) has just started to organise a new consultation (12 August/16 September) to complete its Global Oral Health Action Plan.
The plan will be applicable from 2023 to 2030.
Lire la suiteThe Association for Dental Education in Europe (A.D.E.E.) and the Federation of European Dental Regulators (F.E.D.C.A.R.) welcome the W.H.A.’s adoption on 24 May of the global oral health strategy. They look forward to feeding the W.H.O.’s consultation in the coming weeks that will lay the ground for the Action Plan in charge of detailing and implementing this strategy in the very diverse national context of the 194 Member States of the World Health Assembly.
Lire la suiteHealthcare Professionals Crossing Borders (HPCB) is an informal partnership of professional healthcare regulators.
Its purpose is to support patient safety in Europe through effective regulation across borders. It works in the context of free movement of healthcare professionals in Europe. In its last newsletter an article reverts on the modernization of quality-insurance that is targeted by the EU Commission in its European Strategy of Universities published in January and commented by Education Ministers in April.
The article is available here.
PROFESSIONS IN GROWING NUMBERS
dentists: 400,000 in practice
dental assistants: 480,000
dental hygienists: 45,000
dental technicians: 150,000
other dental auxiliaries (dental therapist, clinical dental technician, dental assistant…) : 45,000
(source : Observatoire Prospectif des Métiers et des Qualifications dans les Professions Libérales)
Lire la suiteIn France, the Observatoire Prospectif des Métiers et des Qualifications dans les Professions Libérales published in November 2021 a -well detailed- study – on « The dental team in Europe ».
From the comparison of France with 6 countries (Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Italy, Romania, United Kingdom) appears the obvious : the national organization of the healthcare covering and of the out-of-pocket costs is the determining criterion for the organization, size and profitability of a more or less extended dental team.
In that context the study identifies 3 basic trends :
Lire la suiteElle rassemble les Ordres européens et les organismes compétents ministériels pour l’inscription, la réglementation et la surveillance des praticiens de l’art dentaire. La fédération se donne pour but l’échange d’informations entre ses membres et la présentation de positions communes sur la réglementation dentaire auprès du législateur européen.
Secrétaire générale
Vice-présidente de l’ordre français des chirurgiens-dentistes