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Although best known for the Christmas shelters, Crisis, the national charity for solitary homeless people, works year-round to help vulnerable and marginalised people get through the crisis of homelessness, fulfil their potential and transform their lives.
Wherever you work as a dental nurse it is a key role, but from practice to practice the responsibilities differ in the finer detail. Christopher Sell talks to dental nurses Lucy Bassindale and Jackie Greig about the difference between nursing in an NHS and a private practice