When Faversham Smiles based in Preston Street, Faversham, Kent, announced on its social media that it was accepting 60 new NHS patient enquiries, it was braced for a healthy response. What transpired resembled a tsunami.
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From time to time members of the dental team may daydream about a different vocation, and a life less ordinary. As their minds wander to professional sports, an acting career, or another headline grabbing occupation, it might surprise them to know that the reverse can happen.
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Aficionados of expensive, unreliable, and user unfriendly platforms, will be saddened to hear that Compass, the NHS Business Service Authorities portal is on borrowed time.
There has been another low key yet important announcement about Fitness to Practice (FTP) from the GDC. Last time around it was about the long awaited analysis of the cause of death of the 16 registrants who died during their Fitness to Practice proceedings between 2019 and 2021.
GDPUK has seen a report containing remarkable details of the procurement process for the University of Suffolk dental project.
For those concerned about how scarce funding has been allocated as well as the transparency of the ICB’s commissioning process, it makes for uncomfortable reading.
One of the reasons politicians quit being MPs is in order ’to spend more time with their families’. Or so they tell us. Dentists quitting the NHS to work privately also cite ’time’ as a reason. Not ’more time to spend with their families’, their actions are more likely to be motivated by a desire to ’spend more time with their patients’.
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GDPUK readers are familiar with DIY dentistry stories, usually involving exodontia and pliers, sometimes with the addition of premedication from the off licence.
Nuffield Health surveyed 8000 adults for its 2023 Healthier Nation Index and the results reveal a startling proportion of female employees battling with mental health issues with women more impacted than men.
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Within a month of leaving the role of Chief Dental Officer England, one of Sara Hurley’s dental projects has secured major funding.