Role of Dental Protection
Our work on burnout and wellbeing has been particularly profound in Australia, where a solid education programme has been in place throughout 2019. The ’Under Pressure‘ lecture tour in seven Australian cities throughout March 2019 was attended by more than ten percent of our membership and was a resounding success.
Dental Protection produces regular risk management publications, advising and supporting dental members around the world and in all stages of their careers.
We are a proud pioneer in this important work, and will also continue to offer the Building Resilience, Avoiding Burnout (BRAB) to support those dealing with burnout.
We will continue to provide valuable support to dentists dealing with burnout. But while support is invaluable, it is only part of the solution. The focus should not solely be on interventions that help the individual dentists to cope with their work environment. A move towards prevention is needed with much more emphasis placed on the improvement of underlying working conditions that impact on the wellbeing of clinicians.
Alongside other organisations, we must seek a commitment from healthcare providers and government to improve the working environment for all practitioners and to truly begin to tackle the endemic of burnout in healthcare. Only with organisational interventions can the wellbeing of dentists be safeguarded.