Odd Question in Lords' about Surgery Sundries Profits

Parliamentary dental questions tend to be on a limited range of subjects. Access problems, potential reforms and initiatives, and a certain amount of sectarian point scoring, are frequent topics.

A recent question in the Lords which is likely to have escaped the dental community‘s notice, broke new ground. It might also be revealing about a rapidly growing party‘s intentions for dentistry.

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A Dental School in Every City?

Our elected representatives seem determined to keep coming to convenient but questionable conclusions about how to ‘fix‘ the dental access crisis. Like many fashions the favoured solutions come and go. There was the ‘greedy dentists‘ era when the answer was to cut NHS fees and limit private prices. Then ‘bigger is better‘ and the rise of the corporates.

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No NHS Dentistry - Council versus ICB

As NHS dentistry fades away local government may start taking legal action against ICBs.

The Isle of Wight Council is threatening legal action over the Island‘s ‘grossly inadequate‘ NHS dental care provision. Following a vote at a recent Council meeting in Newport, the Council has said that it intends to hold the ICB to account for its responsibility in ensuring NHS dental services are provided to an adequate standard.

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GDC Boss Hails The Regulator's Progress On Access

The Chief Executive of the General Dental Council (GDC) Tom Whiting has lent his support to the Association of Dental Group‘s (ADG) ‘Patients First‘ report.

The ADG is a trade association for dental groups with more than ten practices. Its report, launched on 11th September, contains seven recommendations which the group says would improve access to dental services.

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Rejected Access Plan Revived

Patients from Wales could receive NHS dental treatment in England, and vice-versa, under the UK and Welsh governments‘ joint plan to bring down waiting lists. That is if the proposal can survive party political point scoring.

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Unvarnished: Newest Regs Don't Simplify Prescribing for DCPs

When the last government were talking up their dental recovery plan, the Under-Secretary of State for Primary Care, Andrea Leadsom, said that it would make dentistry, “Faster, simpler and fairer.”

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Odd Question in Lords' about Surgery Sundries Profits

A Dental School in Every City?

No NHS Dentistry - Council versus ICB

GDC Boss Hails The Regulator's Progress On Access

Rejected Access Plan Revived

Unvarnished: Newest Regs Don't Simplify Prescribing for DCPs

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