The following have been honoured in the Queen's New Year Honours list. A full report will follow in a later issue of the BDJ.

OBE

Stella Kwan, hygienist. Member of Standing Dental Advisory Committee SDAC. For services to dentistry (Leeds).

Linda Shaw, senior lecturer and Head of Unit Paediatric Dentistry, Unit of Oral Biology, The University of Birmingham Dental School. For services to paediatric dentistry.

MBE

John Beal, consultant, dental public health. For services to dental public health in West Yorkshire.

Others awards included: Joan Harbison, Chief Commissioner, Equality Commission for Northern Ireland, awarded a DBE for services to equal opportunities, also lay member of GDC.

Rabbi Julia Neuberger, Chief Executive, King's Fund, was also awarded a DBE for services to the NHS and other public bodies.

An OBE was awarded to Ms. Heather Rogers, Senior Civil Servant Department of Health.

John Humphreys, who is acting Head of Industrial Relations at the RCN was awarded an OBE.