DR NICHOLAS FORSTER | BDS LOND, LDS | GDC No 58798

Senior Clinical Lead

Nick has worked in dentistry for over 35 years. He is currently Chair of the Wessex Local Dental Network (LDN) as well as a GDPC member with NHS England.

Nick has been a Senior Partner at St James Dental Clinic in Winchester since 1986. St. James Dental Clinic was an urgent hub during the Covid pandemic and continues to be the largest independent provider of NHS dental healthcare in Hampshire.

Nick is known for his professionalism, ethics and support of fellow clinicians in ensuring patients receive successful outcomes. He enjoys the mentoring process and takes pride in building long-term businesses based around the core delivery of quality dentistry.

Nick has three grown-up children and is a keen mountaineer, and hiker in his spare time.

DR SIMON CHAPLIN-ROGERS | LDS, BDS LOND, FRSPH | GDC No. 52613 | GMC 3087824

Senior Clinical Lead

Simon graduated with honours from University College Hospital London in 1978 and qualified as a Licentiate in Dental Surgery from the Royal College of Surgeons in 1979.

The first period of his career was spent in the department of Maxillo Facial Surgery at University College Hospital London. He elected to return to medical school qualifying as a doctor in 1984. Then followed 5 years of medical rotations in London Hospitals.

His special interest both as a tutor and in practice, is sedation dentistry and taking care of the very nervous patients. Simon was for 25 years a Senior Partner at Park Surgery medical practice in Chandler’s Ford, an NHS medical practice that had almost 17,000 patients.

Simon has been involved in several dental practice partnerships, worked as a dental trainer and plays an active part of LDC Hampshire having previously been a chair. Simon is also a member of the board of SAAD, the institution for sedation dentistry in the UK.

Simon’s career has been built on helping practitioners in struggling practices and teaching dentists and medics alike.

Simon has a wide clinical base of knowledge with a special interest in sedation dentistry.

Away from work, Simon is a keen sailor, rugby enthusiast and spends time enjoying time with his family.