For many years one of the government’s tools to manipulate the Dentists and Doctors Review Body (DDRB) has been to miss the agreed deadlines for submitting its evidence.
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The recent announcement of a 4.5% pay uplift for NHS dental contracts at a time when inflation exceeds 10%, represented a further pay cut for dentists. This is on top of the claimed 40% real-terms cut in pay since 2008/9.
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The owner of a well-established private dental practice in the Hertfordshire town of Ware has taken to Facebook to promote his willingness to help people in terrible pain who are unable to access an NHS dentist.
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The College of General Dentistry (‘CGDent’) is the first independent college for primary care dentistry in the UK. Serving the public interest in oral health, and engaging the whole dental team, it is building on the achievements of the FGDP(UK) in setting standards for general dental care and leading dental education, and has a vision to achieve Royal College standing.
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Direct to consumer (DTC) orthodontics is just the sort of service where the public might hope for some regulation to protect them from possible harm. For some time now the two regulators that supposedly protect the public when it comes to dentistry in the UK, have been remarkably hands off.
With the dental access crisis continuing, and many of the government’s own MPs demanding that something is done, a variety of measures are being used to try and halt the persistent negative headlines
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