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Published: Monday, 06 July 2020 11:31
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A report in the Daily Telegraph said that dental patients were paying up to £35 extra to cover PPE costs, as practices attempt to claw back money spent on personal protective equipment when they reopen amid coronavirus crisis. The story was picked up extensively in the media over the week. It followed a statement by mydentist on how they would make these charges.
Read more: Media storm over patients paying for PPE
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Published: Thursday, 02 July 2020 09:02
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The results of the National Dental Epidemiology Programme 2017/18 oral health survey of adults attending general dental practices in England has been published. More than a quarter of participants had tooth decay, having on average 2.1 decayed teeth, and more than half had gingival bleeding. Furthermore 18% reported currently being in pain and the same number had experienced one or more impacts of poor oral health ‘fairly’ or ‘very often’ in the previous year.
Read more: Adult Oral Health survey results published
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Published: Wednesday, 01 July 2020 10:29
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A survey from the Dental Defence Union (DDU) of 2,108 UK adults has found that 70% think dental professionals, doctors and other NHS staff involved in providing treatment to patients during the Covid-19 pandemic should be able to do so without the risk of the NHS being sued for negligence. What’s more only 7% of respondents disagreed with this.
Read more: Survey reveals public support for NHS to be shielded from Covid litigation
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Published: Tuesday, 30 June 2020 09:46
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CODE has completed the acquisition of Isopharm which brings together their compliance platform with the leading provider of online CPD for dental practitioners into a single entity. Established for over 20 years, Isopharm provides online CPD to over 60% of all GDPs using solutions to meet the mandatory requirements for this.
Read more: CODE acquires Isopharm to provide software solutions for dental professionals
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Published: Monday, 29 June 2020 14:58
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The BDA has launched a petition to extend business rates relief to dentists. Their chief executive Martin Woodrow has given his end of week video report on activity undertaken by the Association. In addition, media reports that Scottish dentists are facing ‘financial disaster’ plus reports from Ireland and the USA.
Read more: COVID-19: Update: BDA activity and reports from Scotland, Ireland and the USA
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Published: Thursday, 25 June 2020 09:52
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The National Association of Specialist Dental Accountants and Lawyers (NASDAL) have welcomed clarification on the potential issues that may arise when dentists were eligible to claim the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) grant whilst also receiving their usual level of NHS income. It was highlighted that the amount of grant received may exceed the reduction of private income.
Read more: NASDAL gives clarification on Self-Employment Income Support Scheme
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Published: Wednesday, 24 June 2020 09:03
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The General Dental Council is standing by its decision to refuse the introduction of an instalment payment scheme for hard-pressed dental professionals, despite being made aware that many lower paid registrants are concerned that they may not be able to afford the forthcoming Annual Retention Fee payment due in July.
Read more: No apology nor empathy for hard-pressed dental professionals from GDC
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Published: Tuesday, 23 June 2020 10:48
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Dental Protection has welcomed the Court of Appeal decision to deny the Government permission to appeal the ruling which overturned regulations allowing the health secretary to suspend the payment of pensions to NHS professionals who had been charged with certain criminal offences but not yet convicted. This ruling follows the High Court decision in January this year that it was unlawful for the Government to suspend doctors’ pensions, after a judicial review brought by the BMA.
Read more: Dental Protection welcomes ‘No Appeal’ decision on pension suspension ruling
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Published: Monday, 22 June 2020 08:14
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The British Association of Private Dentistry (BAPD) has written a long letter to MPs for England, responding to a letter sent them by the CDO for England recently. They say they were ‘shocked’ by the content of the letter ‘which simply does not represent the facts or the time line of recent events, and the experience of dentists and patients.’ It is calling all of their 5000 registered members to send the letter to their MPs.
Read more: BAPD writes to every MP
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