The two-year longitudinal dental foundation training programme: an option worth revisiting.

Two-year longitudinal dental foundation training (LDFT) programmes are available for dental graduates through a national recruitment process. These two-year schemes have been around for many years and enable foundation dentists to gain valuable experiences in general practice as well as the hospital and community services. However, the LDFT schemes have closed in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales in recent years, leaving the North East England General Professional Training (GPT) scheme and the Yorkshire and Humberside LDFT scheme as the only two LDFT/GPT schemes left.