Dental Vocational Training (VT)

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Welcome to Dental Vocational Training

“NHS Education for Scotland take newly qualified practitioners, and support their progression to the level where they can practice safe and independent patient care.”

Calum Cassie

Associate Postgraduate Dental Dean

VT Assessment Deadline Dates

2024-2025

Please see below Assessment Dates for DVT

DVT Assessment Dates 2024-2025 ( Download, 128 KB)

VT Organisational Chart

	Postgraduate Dental Dean Proffesser David Felix
	Associate Postgraduate Dental Dean Calum Cassie
Assistant Postgraduate Dean Billy Cameron	Assistant Postgraduate Dean Andrew Leitch	Assistant Postgraduate Dean Fiona McFadzean
VT Advisers	VT Advisers	VT Advisers
John Hyland	Gordon Smart	Amro Alkado
Andrew MacKinnon	Edward Bateman	Alice Miller
Terri Hamilton	Claire Harrison	Fiona MacPhail
Gavin McLellan	Gordon Fletcher	Chris Ogle
Martin McKinstry	Victoria Golding
James McCall

Deans

Postgraduate Dental Dean - Prof David Felix david.felix@nhs.scot
Associate Postgraduate Dental Dean - Calum Cassie calum.cassie@nhs.scot
Assistant Postgraduate Deans -

Andrew Leitch (North and East) andrew.leitch@nhs.scot
Billy Cameron (West) william.cameron@nhs.scot
Fiona McFadzean (North East and South East) fiona.mcfadzean@nhs.scot

VT Advisers

North

North 1 - Gordon Smart gordon.smart@nhs.scot
North 2 - Edward Bateman edward.bateman1@nhs.scot

North East

North East - Amro Alkado amro.alkado@nhs.scot

East

East 1 - Claire Harrison claire.harrison2@nhs.scot
East 2 - Gordon Fletcher gordon.fletcher@nhs.scot

South East

South East 1 - Alice Miller alice.miller@nhs.scot
South East 2 - Fiona MacPhail fiona.macphail3@nhs.scot
South East 3 - Chris Ogle chris.ogle@nhs.scot

West

West 1 - John Hyland john.hyland@nhs.scot
West 2 - Andrew MacKinnon andrew.mackinnon@nhs.scot
West 3 - Victoria Golding victoria.golding@nhs.scot
West 4 - Terri Hamilton terri.hamilton3@nhs.scot
West 5 - Gavin McLellan gavin.mclellan@nhs.scot
West 6 - Martin McKinstry martin.mckinstry@nhs.scot
West Block - James McCall james.mccall@nhs.scot

Business Support

Business Manager Melodye Rennie melodye.rennie@nhs.scot
Senior Administrative Officer Joanne Linklater joanne.linklater@nhs.scot

Regional VT Support

Dental Assessment Unit (DAU)

The DAU deals with all assessment queries and administers Turas Training Portfolio.

DAU Team dental.assessment@nes.scot.nhs.uk
Senior Admin Officer Amanda Dean
Admin Officer Gavin McMillan

START Programme

START Co-ordinator, and Specialist Lead: Kirsty McPherson kirsty.mcpherson3@nhs.scot
START Administrator: Janice Cairns start.training@nes.scot.nhs.uk

Determination X

All Determination X applications and queries should be sent to:

nes.determinationx@nhs.scot

Trainee and Trainer Recruitment

All enquiries regarding Trainee and Trainer Recruitment should be sent to: dental.recruitment@nes.scot.nhs.uk