Dental nurse association founder dies
The founder member of the British Dental Nurses Association has died at the age of 89.
Madeleine Lee, who was known as Bunty, suffered a fall before Christmas and had been recovering but died peacefully in her sleep.
Lee, who worked for Dr Philip Grundy at a practice in Leyland in Lancashire during the Second World War, was inspired to set up the association (BDNA) when a US servicemen told her about a similar association in America.
Despite wartime restrictions Lee immediately set to work travelling around the Britain inviting nurses to join the new BDNA.
It held its first dental nurse examination, which was resided over the newly created National Examining Board for Dental Nurses and Assistants, in November 1943. Lee was the first nurse to receive a certificate.
She stayed on at the BDNA as an honorary life member and opened its new offices in Hillhouse in 2003.
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