English dentists trying to predict what lies in store for them could do a lot worse than speak to their Welsh colleagues. The BBC News website is now carrying a story headlined, “NHS: Dentist check-ups in Wales cut to once a year”
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Anti-Social Behaviour (‘ASB’) is no stranger to providers of healthcare. Encompassing patients who are rude and fractious to downright aggressive, most dentists or their teams will have encountered it and in some locations, not just as rare, isolated incidents.
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The Government Health and Social Care Committee has concluded that the NHS dental contract is “not fit for purpose.”
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The Review Body on Doctors’ and Dentists’ Remuneration (DDRB) has delivered its 50th report.
Set up in 1971 it is the body which will make recommendations to Government across the UK on the remuneration of doctors and dentists taking any part in the National Health Service.
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Britain’s accelerating ‘Summer of Discontent’ stands to enrol the dental profession as the British Dental Association warns of the consequences of soaring inflation on the delivery of dentistry.
The first oral questions faced by the new Secretary of State for Health and Social Care in the Commons on Tuesday, related to NHS dental services access.
Read more: New Health Secretary Slips Up During His First Commons Dental Question
The long awaited contract reforms have now landed, and across the profession individuals and organisations have been quick to give their opinion on what this will mean for NHS dentistry.
A time honoured strategy of organisations with a poor reputation is a re branding exercise, and that appears to be what the GDC are attempting with Fitness to Practice (FtP).
Read more: GDC Attempts Distancing From Its Own Fitness to Practice Process
The British Dental Association’s warning in June that “Change is coming, but it’s modest and marginal” has been borne out with the announcement of “The first ‘significant’ changes to the NHS dental contract for 16 years,” with NHS England insisting “This is not ‘job done.’”