Storms Babet, Ciaran and Debi have disrupted travel, brought floods and destruction, blew over trees and damaged buildings. Now, we are told, a failure in industrial relations has destroyed a crucial protection for the NHS dental budget.
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The news that Ian Brack is vacating his post as Chief Executive of the General Dental Council (GDC) after a stewardship of almost eight years turned a spotlight on the organisation and the role of its leadership.
The British Society of Paediatric Dentistry (BSPD) has written to new Secretary of State for Health & Social Care, Victoria Atkins. As an organisation whose mission is the improvement of the oral health of children and young people, BSPD has a history of campaigning for, and implementing, improvements in children’s oral health in the UK.
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The Rt Hon Dame Andrea Leadsom DBE MP has been announced as the new Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Department of Health and Social Care.
Yesterday started with the news that Rishi Sunak had finally decided to dispense with the services of his Home Secretary, Suella Braverman. Then came that ’WTF?’ announcement that David Cameron, in a deal brokered by another former Tory leader, Lord Hague, was returning to Cabinet as Foreign Secretary. It was pure theatre.
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There’s been a two-thirds increase in the number of complaints about dentistry made to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO). Figures released by England’s Health Ombudsman confirm a 66% increase in the number of complaints received, up from 1,193 in 2017/18 to 1,982 in 2022/23.
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