Committee Members

Honorary Secretary

Nick Forster

Nick Forster qualified as a dentist from Guys Hospital in 1983, and has worked as an NHS  dentist in Winchester for the last 40years owning and running St James Dental Practice. Initially the practice was a two surgery affair and Nick has expanded the it to a ten surgery concern over two sites, providing 63000 UDAs to NHS England . During this period Nick took the practice into NHS contract reform and St James was the largest practice in the Pilot during Covid the Practice also worked as a UDC.

Nick Forster takes an active role in dental politics. He has worked for NHS England as Chair of the Hampshire LDN for the last six years, and is also an LDC and GDPC member.He has recently Taken over from Keith Percival As Secretary ot The Hampshire and Isle of Wight LDC

Nick is also the Clinical Director and one third shareholder of The Dental Management Partners Limited, based in Stockbridge , which owns, manages fifteen  dental practices across Hampshire.

He is a keen yatchsman and enjoys old cars owning a 1937 Alvis and keeps fit by taking on long distant walking.

Chairman

Keith Percival

Graduated BDS from Birmingham University in 1971 and worked as an Associate in a large mainly NHS practice in the West Midlands and then in Gosport until 1974 whereupon he went into a two-man partnership in a Gosport (Rowner) NHS practice which later developed into a mixed private/NHS practice providing almost all aspects of primary care dentistry including sedation, GA and fixed orthodontics (BOULD University of Bristol and Clinical Assistant Queen Alexandra Hospital Portsmouth 1993 to 1995). Achieved the MGDS RCS in 1988 after 4 years postgraduate education and completed the FFGDP(UK) in 2010, he was a BSGDS member from 1988. He became involved with the development of the College of General Dentistry as a Founder Contributor and was awarded the FCGDent. He was also awarded the Fellowship of the BDA in 2019 in recognition of his distinguished services to BDA and the dental profession.

He enjoys a special interest in postgraduate education and especially helping dentists in difficulty – trained Performers List by Equivalence (PLVE) Assessor, Clinical Audit/Peer Review Facilitator and past occasional Chair Dorset Local Assessment Panel for Clinical Audit. Peer Review (LAPRAP,) Deanery trained and accredited Appraiser, Mentor and Advanced Coach/Mentor.

Current Chairman of the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Local Dental Committee (H&IOW LDC) and Trustee of the British Dental Guild. Past Honorary Treasurer of the H&IOW LDC and current Treasurer and past Captain of the BDA Golf Society.

Past President of Wessex BDA Branch Council (2009/10) and current Branch member. Past GDSC Representative for Hampshire and the IOW from 2000 until 2003 and General Dental Practice Committee (GDPC) Representative for the Wessex region from 2004 until 2022. NHSE trained Discipline Specific Practitioner rtd.

Vice Chair

Patrick Stewart

Treasurer

Claudia Peace

Claudia qualified in 1981 from Liverpool University Dental School and followed this with a three-year short service commission in the Royal Army Dental Corps. Subsequently, she joined an NHS general practice in Winchester as an associate practitioner and was the senior dental associate in a large mixed NHS practice for thirty years.

In 2011 she was invited to become a member of the National Steering Group for Dental Contract Reform and in October 2012 she was selected and completed the Oxford Deanery Dental Leadership Development Programme for Local Professional Networks.

In 2013 she became the Treasurer of the Hampshire and Isle of Wight LDC and in 2018 she qualified as a Coach Mentor.

She is an experienced Discipline Specific Practitioner for NHSE Perfomance Advisory Groups and Performer List Decision panels and has also acted as a locum clinical advisor for NHSE South West.

She has helped develop and set up Hampshire and Isle of Wight Local Dental Committee Practitioner  Advice Support Scheme which supports and advises registrants who run into performance difficulties.

She is married and has two grown up children.

Lay Secretary

PA to the Honorary Secretary and Treasurer

Website and Social Media Manager

Emily Vidovic

Emily obtained a BA (Hons) Degree in three-dimensional design at The University for the Creative Arts in 2009 and then obtained a Master’s Degree at the University of Portsmouth in Fine Art in 2011.

Emily has had multiple administration roles including, working within Portsmouth University including training on the main switchboard and housing.

Since 2014, Emily has worked as the Honorary Secretary and Treasurer’s PA. Specifically, Emily has also managed, recorded and  communicated many core aspects of the Deanery’s Appraisal Scheme (financial), H&IOW LDC/NHS England’s Capital Funding Schemes, the joint LDC’ meetings and the LCD’s CPD events.

Emily is the Lay Secretary with administrative duties.

Emily took over the role as the Hampshire and Isle of Wight LCD’s Website Manager in 2015 and has been responsible for it’s development and is also the social media manager.

Emily designed and manages the British Dental Guild website as well as their social media accounts.

Emily is Vice Chair to her local PTA, is fully DBS certified and is currently completing a L2 qualification in Digital Marketing at Lincoln college.

Committee Members