The UK Health Security Agency, a body set up following the demise of Public Health England, has issued new guidance, COVID-19: infection prevention and control dental appendix for practices and relaxations on the tight controls that have been in operation over the last 18 months.
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Uncertainty surrounding the likely uptake of the COVID-19 vaccination by dental staff is leaving practice owners anxious at the possibility of staff shortages.
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Trade Minister Penny Mordaunt has stepped into Portsmouth and Gosport’s NHS dental access crisis as the morale among dentists serving the area is described by a Local Dental Committee chair as “Really very low.”
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A dentist who practised in Westminster, has today been sentenced to 20 months’ imprisonment suspended for two years, after admitting falsely claiming over £74,000 from the National Health Service following an investigation by the NHS Counter Fraud Authority (NHS CFA).
Dentistry has been named as the only part of the NHS to experience an increase in antibiotic prescribing in 2020.
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A new report has said that “Discrimination and other forms of unfair treatment are evident within the NHS – at every stage of the career pipeline – despite efforts to identify and eradicate them.”