A new website, PracticeSearch (http://www.practicesearch.com) has been developed by a dental surgeon as an internet portal containing the details of more than 1,400 dental websites together with a facility for dental practice details to be entered in an internet directory.

The software identifies practices that have gained third party accreditations such as the BDA Good Practice Scheme, Investors in People, Denplan Excel and Valident. Valident is a new regulatory compliance scheme designed to publicise on the internet dental practices that fulfil all of the regulatory requirements applying to electronic commerce the privacy of electronic communications, data protection and GDC Professional Standards.

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