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The latest ‘NHS Dentistry and Oral Health Update’, which dropped into subscribers’ inboxes on Wednesday 31st August, revealed the response to a FOI request seeking answers to the effectiveness of the much trumpeted ‘additional £50M funding’ that was announced in January to entice practices to add additional sessions or open up for additional hours in the evenings and at weekends to confront urgent care backlogs.
Tory leadership hopeful and, if successful, PM in waiting Rishi Sunak has promised immediate action to tackle the dental profession’s deep-seated problems.
Portsmouth has the seventh lowest number of dentists per ‘100,000 population in the country* and the MP for Portsmouth South, Stephen Morgan (Lab), is no stranger to his constituents’ desperation.
Fears that the General Dental Council may be monitoring the social media posts of registrants have been confirmed as fact.
Read more: Forget Big Brother – The GDC Will Take It From Here
NHS Digital has headlined its NHS Dental Statistics, England 2021-22, with the news that 16.4m adults were seen for NHS dental treatment in the 24 months up to June 2022.
Read more: BDA Calls Out The Spin After Latest NHS Statistics For England Are Released
The fear of mistakes, confrontation and complaints top the list of worries for early career dentists according to a new survey by Dental Protection.
Could family doctors follow dentists out of the NHS?
Many of those reading this will not remember “NHS glasses”. There was a time when primary care optical services were provided mainly within the NHS, by independent contractors.
Read more: The NHS Dominoes Are Falling, Is It Now Time for GPs?
With so many patients around the UK unable to get dental appointments, practice managers and recruiters now have two new problems to contend with. These could hit the numbers of badly needed Foundation Dentists (FD) and Dental Care Professionals (DCP).