If you are a current BADN Full Member whose renewal is due on 31 August 2010, or if you are a Registered Dental Nurse wishing to join BADN as a Full Member, please click here for on-line application/renewal.   

Current Associate and Student Members, please renew off-line as usual.  Student Dental Nurses and others wishing to join BADN as Associate Members, please click here for an Associate Membership application pack and form

ARE YOU THINKING ABOUT JOINING BADN??

You already know that it is the ONLY professional organisation representing dental nurses, but perhaps you think you aren’t eligible to join - because you aren’t qualified yet, or because you only work part time, or because you are now a tutor or a manager, or work in practice management or reception?

Perhaps you considered joining BADN, but put it off until another day and then forgot about it? Or joined for a year, and then never got round to renewing your membership? Maybe you thought you couldn’t afford it at the time?

You may even have joined another organisation, only to find that dental nurses are not their main priority? Or signed up to a dental nursing magazine, only to discover that the magazine was all you got for your money?

As a dental nurse, time and money are important to you - you never have enough of either! New developments such as Statutory Registration, CPD, the NVQ ……… you keep meaning to find out about them, but don’t have the time, or know where to do to find out. If only there was one place where all this information could be found!

Somewhere you could get legal advice, information, advice and support …… somewhere to help you juggle work, family, social life, education …… and help you save money too!

BADN can help! Our quarterly Journal, the “British Dental Nurses’ Journal” keeps you up to date with what’s happening in dental nursing (and it’s free, as part of your membership package - cover price normally £3.95 an issue!). Our members’ CD-Rom (also part of your membership package) is chock full of information and can be updated regularly from the members-only area of our website. BADN members can get FREE legal advice from our Legal Helpline - on both employment and personal issues. Full Membership now includes professional indemnity insurance.

Unlike other dental associations or trade unions, BADN is specifically for dental nurses. The BADN Council is made up of dental nurses elected by the members to run BADN, so we know what challenges dental nurses are facing, what dental nurses are interested in, what dental nurses want!

All dental nurses can join BADN - no matter where they work, whether they are qualified or not, full and part time. The Full membership fee starts at just over £79 a year - around 22p a day! And there are special rates for student dental nurses, retired dental nurses, those working part time. Payment may be made by cheque, credit/debit card or Direct Debit. If you pay by Direct Debit, you can even divide your membership fee into two and pay half every six months!

BADN Benefits, our membership benefits scheme, can save you money on holidays, insurance, healthcare and High Street goods such as CDs, DVDs. Even the boss can benefit with our waiting room magazine packages - BADN members get a further 10% discount!

BADN National Groups are open to dental nurses working in  the Armed Forces and Education. And, through our Local Group Network, BADN members can meet up with other dental nurses in their own town or city. (If there isn’t a BADN Local Group in your town, contact us and we will help you set one up.)

Are you ready to fill in the application form? Just complete the Full Membership Application Form (make sure you complete all sections of the form!) if you are a working dental nurse, or the Associate Membership Form if you are a student, retired, overseas or ex-dental nurse and send it back to us with your payment (and the DD form if you would like to pay in two instalments).

If you’re still undecided - consider this. BADN is the only association to represent dental nurses in discussions with the General Dental Council, the Department of Health, the Inland Revenue (did you know itwas BADN who negotiated the tax rebate for dental nurses who launder their own uniforms? Did you even know you could claim back tax for laundering your uniform?), employers’ associations like the BDA and the DPA - in fact anyone at all connected with dental nursing. If you want your views to be heard, you need to join BADN!

One more thing - the BADN membership fee is also tax deductible, so you can claim more tax back for joining!

Benefits of BADN Membership (benefits may vary from time to time)

For the conduct of its professional indemnity insurance, BADN is an Appointed Representative of Parliament Hill Ltd which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority.

INDEMNITY INSURANCE

Because of the change in the GDC Regulations,  BADN provide professional indemnity insurance cover (subject to acceptance by underwriters) to Full Members as part of their full membership requirement. This scheme is subject to underwriting criteria and terms and conditions may change and in rare cases insurers could decline to offer cover.  Scheme benefits include:-

• Cover provided by a specialist “A” rated Insurer

• £1,000,000 aggregate Limit of Indemnity for each Insured/policy.

• Cover for Disciplinary defence costs where these arise out of a potential professional indemnity claim

FREE quarterly copies of the “British Dental Nurses’ Journal”

FREE access to legal advice from our telephone Legal Helpline

FREE CD Rom, containing:

• Specimen Contract of Employment

• Summary of “Rewarding Staff” - advice on dental nurse salaries

• Articles

• Information on statutory registration

• Information on dental nurse training

• Instructions on how to claim back tax on your membership and laundry costs

• Health & Safety Advice Sheets

FREE information, advice and support from our staff

Local Groups for dental nurses working in the same town/city

Members - only area of the website

Save £30 off the purchase of spectacles and get a free eye test at Vision Express, or receive an eye test for just £10!.

Discounted Motor Breakdown insurance and Car and Home Insurance renewals too.

Discount rates on multi-trip travel insurance

Special offers from selected hotel chains

10% off dental nurse textbooks from Blackwell Publishing

CDs from £6.49, DVDs from £12.99, computer games from £31.99 from CD Wow - plus special offers on lingerie, cosmetics and fragrances

BADN credit card from MBNA

Discounts on Schülke & Mayr Cross-Infection Control Courses

Discounts off Virgin Holidays

10% discount on airport parking with Holiday Extras Airport Parking; also special rates on their Meet & Greet, Chauffeur Drive Express, and airport executive lounge services

Discounts on Merlin Entertainment including, Alton Towers, Chessington World of Adventures, Sea Life and many more...