NHS England announces savings in dentistry
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- Published: Wednesday, 02 April 2014 07:30
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NHS England has announced ‘Dental contract uplift and efficiencies for 2014/15’. the Department of Health has decided to uplift all GDS contracts and PDS agreements by 1.6% to allow for a 1% increase in net pay. Other savings include: amending dental payments for maternity, paternity and sickness leave and reducing dental foundation trainee salaries over time to match the first post registration year for doctors to regain a level playing field in this area.
Full details can be found at: http://www.england.nhs.uk/2014/03/31/dental-contract/
The NHS England notice states: ‘After taking account of the recommendation of the Doctors and Dentists Review Body (DDRB) the Department of Health has decided to uplift all GDS contracts and PDS agreements by 1.6% to allow for a 1% increase in net pay and for other increases in expenses. This will automatically be applied by the NHS BSA.
‘Dental contractors who employ a Foundation Trainee, and satisfy the criteria specified in the Statement of Finance Entitlements, receive a training allowance of £753.46 per month. This should be uplifted by 1% and the figure revised to £761.00 per month. Foundation Trainee salaries for current cohorts will also be increased by 1% in line with Government’s pay cap.
‘Our efficiency package for 2014/15 is expected to deliver savings across, national and local levels, in line with the rest of the NHS, some 4%, and includes:
- Reducing costs of unnecessary activity
- No increase in funding or weighting of courses of treatment to reflect increased complexity arising from demographic changes;
- Continuation of dental practice computerisation to enable the delivery of the new dental contractual reform proposals;
- Amending dental payments for maternity, paternity and sickness leave
- Reducing dental foundation trainee salaries over time to match the first post registration year for doctors to regain a level playing field in this area.’
Details of efficiencies:
Reducing costs of unnecessary activity, through new measures to:
- claw back funding for excessive under-delivery of contract activity;
- move to a shorter return cycle for activity and performance data (which will also assist in moving to a capitation system);
- improved anti-fraud measures;
Reducing unnecessary dental referrals from primary to secondary dental care through increasing activity undertaken in primary care, supported by changes to remuneration structure and changes to reporting and monitoring arrangements.
In addition efficiencies from increasing complexity of treatment, without any increases to funding or changes to weighting of courses of treatment, continuation of practice computerisation, changes in maternity, paternity and sickness pay and reducing Foundation Trainee salary over time by some £2,000.
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