The recent BDIA Dental Showcase exhibition and conference at the ExCeL London is one of the big events in the UK dental calendar. The pandemic may have affected how the profession views such gatherings, and there have been comments that this meeting at the ExCeL centre felt smaller and had less trade representation than before.
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Neil O’Brien is the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Health and Social Care, who seems to have been given the dental brief. His one man mission to make predecessor Maria Caulfield look a model of honesty and competence, shows no sign of abating.
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The adoption of SNOMED Clinical Terms (SNOMED) in UK dentistry has not run a smooth course. It may have been out of the dental headlines for a while, but the many dental teams who had hoped that it had been quietly abandoned will be alarmed by a new announcement.
The annual NASDAL benchmarking report is often held up as a health check on the profession’s financial well-being, and at first sight the latest report looks promising. But there are suggestions that the headline figures may not tell whole story. Despite this their latest figures were quoted by the Chief Dental Officer for England, Sara Hurley, in her presentation at the recent BDIA showcase.
Read more: “Not the whole story” - Survey Shows Rise in Dental Earnings
The BDA and BUPA colleagues have now confirmed the rumour which had recently begun circulating, that BUPA are planning to dispose of 85 of their dental practices.
As March draws to a close it is time for the last minute announcement of an increase in NHS patient charges. The NHS has a tradition of giving minimal notice, yet expecting practices to inform their teams and patients, and forcing suppliers to rush out changes to practice management software. Only a few weeks after finally offering contact holders an uplift of just 4.75% , patient charges are to rise by 8.5%.
Read more: Patient Charges Rise By More Than Uplift - Reaction
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