Dentistry seldom enjoys a good press. It either makes the headlines when patients can’t access it or, when very rarely in the scale of things, a dentist gets ‘done’ for some treatment gone wrong or a financial scam is exposed.
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The value of deals in the UK Health & Social Care sector is hitting record levels and stands at £6.01bn so far for 2021, according to BLM’s Health Sector Deals Diagnosis.
With NHS dentistry in a sorry state, patients, dental teams and bureaucrats, seem to be working their way through the five stages of grief, albeit at different stages of the process.
Read more: NHS Dentistry Unravels - Central Denials and Public Anger
It may seem like putting on a mime performance for the visually impaired, but each year the BDA does it’s best to explain to those in charge, why dentists and their teams deserve to be properly paid.
The veteran Radio 4 presenter turned Times journalist Libby Purves OBE used her Times newspaper column (Monday 7th March) to throw her weight behind the tidal wave of concern surrounding the state of NHS dentistry.
Read more: Times Journalist’s outspoken appeal for NHS Dentistry
The language that gave us ‘Carte blanche’ and ‘Faux pas’ has many eloquent two word expressions, and we can now add ‘mutilation dentaire’ to the list.
Read more: The French Have Two Words For It. “Dental Mutilations”.