2020, issue 16

Dental professionals and the Practitioner Health Service

Dr Zaid Al-Najjar
ByDr Zaid Al-Najjar
Published05 February 2020
Dr Zaid Al-Najjar discusses the aims and ambitions of NHS Practitioner Health, and explains how it can help dentists in need of support.

Dentists often work in isolation, without the support of peers and colleagues, and face organisational, financial and time pressures on a daily basis.

We work to the principle that a practitioner-patient should never be worse off being part of PH than not attending us.

This page was correct at publication on 05/02/2020. Any guidance is intended as general guidance for members only. If you are a member and need specific advice relating to your own circumstances, please contact one of our advisers.

Dr Zaid Al-Najjar

MRCGP MFFLM LLM MBA DClinPsych DDerm DRCOG Zaid is the deputy medical director of the NHS Practitioner Health (PH). Before this he was a medico-legal adviser with a medical defence organisation and became a member of the Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine. At NHS PH he continues to support doctors and dentists, albeit from a clinical perspective.

Dental professionals and the Practitioner Health Service