BDA asks Cameron to honour the Government’s pledge on health reform The British Dental Association (BDA) has called on the Government to issue a timetable on its plans to reform health regulation. Today’s Queen’s Speech was devoid of references to reform of healthcare regulation, whilst in 2013, in the wake of the Francis Inquiry, the Prime Minster pledged to ‘sweep away’ the ‘outdated and inflexible’ law governing health regulators. The call was supported by professional associations, trade unions and the healthcare regulators themselves and so the UK Law Commissions subsequently produced a draft bill on reform of healthcare regulation, but it has not secured any parliamentary time. ‘Britain has over a million regulated healthcare practitioners,’ Mick Armstrong, chair of the British Dental Association,