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:

• Rhian Jones
• Samy Darwish

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

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. 

This group consists of:

• Consultant rep: Kandy Ganesan
• SAS Rep: Adrian Curtis

This group consists of:

• Samy Darwish

The Oral Surgery Managed Clinical Networks (MCNs) are regional organisations where leading oral surgeons and key stakeholders closely involved in the provision of primary, secondary and tertiary care services discuss quality assured evidence-based strategic matters in relation to the specialty. Typically, Commissioners and Public Health Consultants are also in attendance as well as representatives from other specialities and the general dental network, for a vital and supportive collaborative contribution. They work together to ensure that patients receive the care they need from suitably qualified practitioners in the most suitable location.  The key outcomes of the meetings are then disseminated to active performing members of the speciality and the wider profession at large. 

Samy Darwish, an Oral Surgery Primary Care Provider, is Deputy Chair of the London MCN and a member of the MCNs in Dorset as well as Hampshire and the Isle of Wight too. He is the Council Member assigned to support all BAOS members with any enquiries they have in relation to MCNs, including how to get more involved in your local network or how to contact your local MCN.  He can be contacted by email at mail@baos.org.uk

• Alice Cameron – Trainee Representative on Council (1 Jan 2024 – 31 Dec 2024)
• Richa Arya – Deputy Trainee Representative (1 Jan 2024 – 31 Dec 2024)
• Manveer Chhina – Dental Core Trainee / Junior Representative (1 Jan 2024 – 31 Dec 2024).

  Recent discussions for trainees have included:

• “Challenging Culture” – Mr Simon Fleming
• “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”.

Trainee Communications

• If you wish to contact any of the above Trainee Representatives, please contact the BAOS Office at: mail@baos.org.uk and we will forward your request to them. 
• The Oral Surgery Specialist Training Curriculum is due to change in September 2024 and ongoing updates can be provided through the Trainee Rep. 

BAOS administration are able to forward any enquiries to this subsection of Council.      

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.

BAOS are pleased to have the following member allocated to this important area.

• Kate Taylor

The BAOS are lucky to have a fine academic pedigree on council.

• Helen Petersen (Editor Journal of Oral Surgery)
• Judith Jones

BAOS would also direct aspiring authors to the Oral Surgery Journal website for submissions (Wiley-Blackwell).