Dame Andrea Leadsom, the Minister responsible for Primary Health including dentistry, has admitted that the Dental Recovery Plan’s (DRP) hope of delivering an extra 2.5 million appointments "has a high likelihood of not being reliable".
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With each week more similarities emerge between the shocking behaviour of the Post Office towards its sub postmasters, and the shocking behaviour of the GDC towards its registrants. A Coroner who has investigated the death of a dentist, has now produced a report that in any organisation with a shred of decency, should have resulted in the immediate investigation and suspension of personnel.
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The great and the good of the dental profession returned to Westminster yesterday (19th March) with some stark feedback for the Health and Social Care Committee: the government’s Dental Recovery Plan (DRP) simply doesn’t cut it.
GDPUK’s Guy Tuggle watches the proceedings as dentistry returns to Parliament
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Forget the queues, forget the DIY dentistry epidemic, and forget the hospital admissions. The NHS has a bold plan to fix the dental access crisis: Circulate a list of practices that have not updated their entry on the NHS website lately.
The post pandemic inquiries have claimed many scalps. Boris Johnson the most notable. Sadly, dentistry has not been immune.
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Dental FX, one of Glasgow’s premier dental practices, has announced with enormous sadness the death of its founder and a renowned implantologist Dr Stephen Jacobs.
It seems that when it really wants to, the GDC can deliver large quantities of data within a reasonable time limit. At the 2023 LDC conference, GDC Chair, Lord Harris, floated the idea that questions could be added to the retention fee renewal process for dentists at the end of the year, to try and provide basic data about what the workforce was actually doing.
It is not unusual for the papers to carry stories about the poor state of the UK’s defences. Misfiring missiles, broken down rusty aircraft carriers, and the Ajax armoured vehicles now expected to arrive a decade late, over budget, and which in trials made their occupants deaf, are just some examples.
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A petition to ’Save NHS Dentistry and Make It Fit For The 21st Century’ has attracted over 199,000 of its target 200,000 signatures (at the time of publishing on 12th March).