A majority of dental associates only want to work part time and for increased remuneration according to a new survey which charts the challenging dynamics of the associate dentist recruitment market.
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Patients logged over 15,000 ‘malpractice’ claims in the year 2020-21 NHS Resolution figures show. As inflation, mortgage rates and rents soar, ‘where there’s blame, there’s a claim’ could become increasingly imbedded in the thinking of a growing number of patients.
Read more: NHS Malpractice Allegations Go Over 15,000 – Can You Avoid One?
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It is a delight to be able to write something positive about the GDC, and recently they demonstrated that they could act quickly, use common sense, and put patients first. In what may become an example of right touch regulation, a potential crisis was averted.
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.
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.
Read more: Gums and Roses. Rock and Roll meets Dental Hygiene
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’.
Read more: YouGov Poll Reveals Quality of Care Compromised by Time Constraints