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Royal visit to 'world-class' dental school
14th May 2010
Duchess of Gloucester
The Duchess of Gloucester is due to visit the Peninsula Dental School's Dental Education Facility at the Knowledge Spa in Truro this afternoon (Friday).
The Duchess will meet with representatives from the Peninsula Dental School, the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry, Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly PCT, Devon and Cornwall Police and Kenwyn Parish Council before touring the facility and meeting dental students and college staff.
Since opening to the public in January this year, the Peninsula Dental School has treated in the region of 350 NHS patients for a variety of treatments, from dental check-ups to providing fillings and carrying out extractions.
Dental students have also been active in the local community, bringing dental hygiene and care messages to a wide variety of audiences.
Professor Liz Kay, Dean of the Peninsula Dental School and Interim Dean of the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry, says: 'We are delighted to be able to welcome Her Royal Highness to Truro, where she will have the opportunity to see, at first hand, our popular Dental Education Facility and to learn about the College's new European Centre for the Environment and Human Health.'
Carleen Kelemen, director of the Convergence Partnership Office for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, says: 'It is easy to forget that it is just under six years that our Combined Universities in Cornwall first student crossed the threshold of the newly built building at Tremough.
'In that time, we have seen many CUC initiatives one of which is the creation of the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry here in Truro.
'Congratulations to the visionaries and stakeholders who have brought this about. May it be the jewel in the "crown" of dentistry provision and research for the UK.'
Chief executive of the Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust, Peter Colclough says: 'The opening of the Truro campus for the Peninsula Dental School further cements our role as a teaching hospitals Trust and our reputation for high quality education.
'The expansion of the Knowledge Spa was planned from the outset of designs for the original building and it is terrific to have more world-class facilities on our doorstep. Alongside this is a growing culture of research and development which really puts us on the map to attract and retain the very best clinicians here in Cornwall.'
The Duchess will also have the opportunity to meet representatives from the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry's European Centre for the Environment and Human Health, which received £3 million funding from the ERDF (European Regional Development Fund) Convergence Programme in early April 2010 and which is also based at the Knowledge Spa.
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