Barry Cockcroft (dentist)

Barry Cockcroft is the current Chief Dental Officer (CDO) for England.cite web
url = http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Aboutus/Chiefprofessionalofficers/Chiefdentalofficer/index.htm
publisher = Department of Health (UK)
title = Chief Dental Officer
accessdaymonth = 3 December |accessyear = 2007] cite web
url = http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Aboutus/Chiefprofessionalofficers/Chiefdentalofficer/DH_4000297
publisher = Department of Health (UK)
title = About the Chief Dental Officer
accessdaymonth = 3 December |accessyear = 2007] cite web
url =http://www.gdc-uk.org/About+us/Who+we+are/Barry+Cockcroft.htm
title = Who are we? Barry Cockcroft
accessdaymonth = 3 December |accessyear = 2007
publisher = General Dental Council]

Cockcroft qualified from the Dental School at the University of Birmingham in 1973. He 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. He was appointed Deputy CDO in November 2002, and he became the acting CDO on 1 October 2005,cite web
url = http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/News/DH_4120523
title = New Acting Chief Dental Officer appointed
accessdaymonth = 3 December |accessyear = 2007
publisher = Department of Health (UK)] before he took up the CDO post in July 2006.

Cockcroft is married and has three children.

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