With the increased media interest in Dentistry, Shawn Charlwood became a familiar sight, and source of quotes, about the dire state of NHS general dental practice. His comparison of the long bedraggled queues of people hoping to get scarce dental appointments, with those outside eastern bloc bakeries in the Soviet era, hit home, and has been copied in the national press.
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It can be the stuff of nightmares, even without the added difficulties of working under a UDA system. The question of just what GDP‘s are expected to do when a patient attends with problems following a spot of dental tourism has caused a good deal of anxiety, not to mention heart searching. For better or worse, there is now some official NHS guidance.
There are daily predictions about the arrival of a toxic mix of inflation and a stagnant economy, as well as further tax rises. Coupled with global instability the outlook for the UK economy is at best, uncertain.
For a city with a population of around half a million, Bristol has been the subject of more than its fair share of GDPUK stories. Most of these have been about the access crisis.
Alongside the challenges of their NHS contracts, and recruiting the dental professionals needed to fulfil them, GDP‘s continue to face a variety of other obstacles. Apart from the upcoming rise in NIC contributions, a week‘s news reveals two more headaches for practices struggling to deliver care, in an area already beset with access problems
After a run of lost legal cases the GDC has scored a decisive victory at The Court of Appeal. The case considered the perceived ‘doubling up‘ of sanctions involving suspensions.
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