The BDA has responded to the Department’s evaluation of the contract reform prototypes, saying that ‘half-measures risk sustainability of NHS dentistry’. GDPC Chair Henrik Overgaard-Nielsen said: “We cannot go on as we are. Policymakers must now ensure NHS patients are not left stuck between a rock and a hard place when they require dental care.”
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The Department has published: Dental Contract Reform, Evaluation of the first year of prototyping 2016-2017. It shows some progress, with the clinical model well accepted by the profession. However further work needs to be done and adjustments made to the business model to improve the sustainability for practices. More practices should be recruited.
Plans from the GDC not to consult registrants on fee levels ever again are unacceptable, the BDA has told the regulator. BDA chair Mick Armstrong said: "There can be no justification for keeping the ARF at its current rate. We have paid for the GDCs mismanagement in previous years – it is now time for the regulator to live within its means.”
In a recent session of questions to the Health Secretary, the parlous state of NHS dentistry was raised by several opposition constituency MPs. In answers, Junior health minister, Steve Brine MP, sought to deflect criticism of the Government’s policy or lack of it.
Read more: Minister seeks to defend Government policy on dentistry
The National Audit Office (NAO) says in a new report that NHS England and Capita misunderstood the risks in outsourcing primary care support services resulting in services to 39,000 GPs, dentists, opticians and pharmacists that were a long way below an acceptable standard. Widespread failures are still being experienced by primary care practitioners.
The results of the Oral Health Survey of 5-year-old children 2017 show wide variation at both regional and local authority level for both prevalence and severity of dental decay. Overall 76.7% of 5-year-old children in England had no experience of obvious dental decay, for the fourth consecutive survey.
Read more: Decay rates lower for 5-year olds but inequalities persist
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