Barry Cockcroft (dentist)

Dr Barry Michael Cockcroft CBE was the Chief Dental Officer (CDO) for England.[1][2][3]

Early life

Dr Cockcroft qualified from the Dental School at the University of Birmingham in 1973.[2][3]

Career

Cockcroft was a dentist working in Rugby in general practice for 27 years during which time he represented dentists locally on the Warwickshire Local Dental Committee (LDC), and nationally, after he was elected to the General Dental Services Committee (GDSC) in 1990.[1][2] He was appointed Deputy CDO in November 2002, and he became the acting CDO on 1 October 2005,[4] before he took up the CDO post in July 2006.[3] He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2010 New Year Honours.[5]

In 2015, after leaving the post at the DoH, Cockcroft became a non-executive director at UK Corporate dental provider MyDentist (Formally Integrated Dental Holdings),[6] one of the largest providers of NHS and private dentistry in the country.

Personal life

Cockcroft is married and has three children.[2][3]

He appeared on the 2012 Christmas Special of the BBC's University Challenge .[7]

gollark: You must `pip install` that.
gollark: <@160279332454006795> https://github.com/osmarks/stack-overflow-import
gollark: It might. I need to fix authorship info first.
gollark: Not really!
gollark: In what form?

References
  1. "Chief Dental Officer". Department of Health (UK). Retrieved 3 December 2007.
  2. "About the Chief Dental Officer". Department of Health (UK). Retrieved 3 December 2007.
  3. "Who are we? Barry Cockcroft". General Dental Council. Archived from the original on 19 December 2007. Retrieved 3 December 2007.
  4. "New Acting Chief Dental Officer appointed". Department of Health (UK). Retrieved 3 December 2007.
  5. "No. 59282". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2009. p. 7.
  6. https://www.mydentist.co.uk/about-us/news/2015/06/29/barry-cockcroft-cbe-is-appointed-non-executive-director-of-idh-group
  7. "Christmas University Challenge - Results". www.blanchflower.org. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
Government offices
Preceded by
Raman Bedi		 Chief Dental Officer for England
October 2005 - February 2015		 Succeeded by
Sara Hurley


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