New vaccinators, new clinical guidelines and new projects get the go ahead

Even aside from the political headlines this week, there has been quite a bit going on. Here’s a snapshot of the news from national and professional media from the past 7 days…

Dental/healthcare

Covid: How easy is it to see your dentist in Wales?

Crest and Oral-B Join America’s ToothFairy to Help End Childhood Tooth Decay

Call for dentists, optometrists and former NHS staff to become Covid vaccinators

Doctors solve man’s breathing problems – after finding a tooth growing inside his nose

‘Plan C’ with ‘masks in all indoor spaces and NHS Covid app for pubs’ proposed

BSP: S3 Treatment Guidelines for Periodontitis

Strictly’s Rylan Clark-Neal shows off his new blond highlights and veneers at It Takes Two – after joking that he was going through a ‘mid-life crisis’

Jennifer Lawrence had to film Don’t Look Up ‘toothless’ after losing veneer during Covid

Renewable Energy

Volkswagen expands renewables drive with Swedish wind farm

Rejected: green power giant Iberdrola’s $8bn deal for US utility thrown out by regulator

A system that combines solar energy and a chemical reactor to get more from biomass has been designed

U.K. Utility SSE Digs In Against Elliott’s Push to Split Off Renewables

£20 million a year funding boost announced for tidal energy in the UK

VARD wins new North Star contract for an additional SOV to operate on Dogger Bank Wind Farm

Concern over impact of Norfolk Boreas offshore windfarm on seabirds