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COVID-19: Monday Update – Row erupts over Minister’s claim

At yesterday’s No 10 briefing, Minister Robert Jenrick claimed that ‘every single … dental surgery has had a PPE delivery’. This was robustly denied on Twitter by dentists, including BDA Chair Mick Armstrong: “We can do without Cabinet Ministers talking about non-existent deliveries of PPE. Weeks have been lost on setting up a properly equipped emergency dental service.”

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Indemnifiers cut membership costs for dentists

Both Dental Protection and MDDUS have offered support to dentists affected by the Covid-19 virus and the ban on most dental work. Dental Protection has announced two months free membership. MDDUS is automatically reducing the subscription cost of indemnity cover for its dentist members by as much as 75%.

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NHS/Private practice gap widens - NASDAL

The latest NASDAL (National Association of Specialist Dental Accountants and Lawyers) Benchmarking figures for 2018-19 have just been released and show the gap in profitability between NHS and Private practices has grown – a typical private practice’s profit over £16,000 greater than that of a typical NHS practice.

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COVID-19: Weekend Update - Volunteers needed, PPE talks and Chancellor’s plans to help self-employed

The CDO (England) is calling for volunteers in the dental workforce to be redeployed to areas of need within the wider NHS, based on the competencies of each team member. The BDA has been engaged in talks on the provision of PPE and the Chancellor has announced a scheme to help the self-employed, but not for those earning over £50K a year.

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COVID-19: Wednesday Update II: NHS England issues new guidance – at last

Updated guidance for dental practices has been belatedly issued by Sara Hurley, Chief Dental Officer England and Matt Neligan, Director of Primary Care and System Transformation, NHS England. It covers advice to stop ‘routine, non-urgent dental care’ and contract funding and reconciliation in both 2019/20 and 2020/21.

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COVID-19: Wednesday Update: Job retention scheme, BDA writes to GDC on difficulties with CPD and Chancellor on the Self-Employed

Updated advice on Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, where the Government is offering all employers access to a grant which will cover up to 80% of the total cost of wages. The GDC has offered few crumbs of comfort about mitigating the retention fee. The BDA has asked the GDC for leniency regarding registrants’ ability to comply with CPD requirements this year. The Chancellor has spoken of help for self-employed.

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