As recently reported on GDPUK, the Department of Health & Social Care have announced that NHS England has now written to integrated care boards (ICBs) in each region, and told them to, “stand up thousands of urgent appointments over the next year.”
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Following the news that the NHS saw 2.2 million more patients between July and November 2024 than it managed over the same period in 2023, Health Minister Stephen Kinnock is hoping that the announcement will enable the government to fulfil another of its election pledges.
Read more: Government Confirms 700,000 Extra Urgent Appointments From April
From time to time there have been hopes of a revival in the fortunes of NHS dentistry. There was the promise of extra money that did not turn up. The promise of a ring fence to retain the existing funds, that turned out to be full of gaps.
Read more: Treasury Pulls the Strings at “Fixing NHS Dentistry Hearings”
A new study from the University of Buffalo published in the Journal of the American Dental Association has linked frequent recreational cannabis (FRC) use with caries and severe tooth loss.
With the increased media interest in Dentistry, Shawn Charlwood became a familiar sight, and source of quotes, about the dire state of NHS general dental practice. His comparison of the long bedraggled queues of people hoping to get scarce dental appointments, with those outside eastern bloc bakeries in the Soviet era, hit home, and has been copied in the national press.
The driver of a suspected stolen Range Rover Evoke which was engaged in a high speed chase, lost control of the vehicle on Monday (17th February) crashing it, at 22.00 hrs, into a working dental practice.
Read more: Stolen Range Rover Careers Into Didsbury Dental Practice
It can be the stuff of nightmares, even without the added difficulties of working under a UDA system. The question of just what GDP‘s are expected to do when a patient attends with problems following a spot of dental tourism has caused a good deal of anxiety, not to mention heart searching. For better or worse, there is now some official NHS guidance.
There are daily predictions about the arrival of a toxic mix of inflation and a stagnant economy, as well as further tax rises. Coupled with global instability the outlook for the UK economy is at best, uncertain.
For a city with a population of around half a million, Bristol has been the subject of more than its fair share of GDPUK stories. Most of these have been about the access crisis.