Defence Dental Agency (Hansard, 5 June 1998)

§ Dr. Reid

Key targets have been set for the Chief Executive of the Defence Dental Agency for the financial year 1998–99. The targets build on the progress already made by the Agency since it formed in March 1996 and are as follows:

Key Target 1
From within available personnel resources, achieve 100 per cent. of required professionally and militarily trained personnel, at the specified readiness required for deployment in support of the National Contingency Force.
Key Target 2
To achieve an overall increase in dental fitness to 75 per cent.
Key Target 3
Measures are to be implemented to target dental treatment towards clinical priority groups leading to a zero increase in the Treatment Needs performance indicator.
Key Target 4
To reduce the percentage of failed appointments with dental officers and the time wasted by such failures by 10 per cent. To reduce the percentage of failed appointments with dental hygienists and the time wasted by such failures by 25 per cent.
Key Target 5
To limit the number of personnel in dental fitness Category D4 to 15 per cent. of the total Service population.
Key Target 6
To achieve a success rate for Dental Support Specialist (DSS) Part II training of 95 per cent.