Anti-Social Behaviour Triggers Police Call-Out To Cinderford Practice

Details: Published: Wednesday, 27 July 2022 08:01; Written by Guy Tuggle; Hits: 1371

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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Not Fit For Purpose – Commons Health Committee Verdict On NHS Contract

Details: Published: Tuesday, 26 July 2022 07:35; Written by Chris Tapper; Hits: 3281

The Government Health and Social Care Committee has concluded that the NHS dental contract is “not fit for purpose.”

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Independent Review Body Justifies 4.5% Increase To Dentists

Details: Published: Monday, 25 July 2022 07:27; Written by Peter Ingle; Hits: 2120

The Review Body on Doctors’ and Dentists’ Remuneration (DDRB) has delivered its 50^th 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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BDA Issues Stark Warning On Impact Of Inflation

Details: Published: Friday, 22 July 2022 17:46; Written by Guy Tuggle; Hits: 1639

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.

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New Health Secretary Slips Up During His First Commons Dental Question

Details: Published: Thursday, 21 July 2022 15:24; Written by Chris Tapper; Hits: 2812

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.

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The Profession Gives Opinion On NHS Changes

Details: Published: Thursday, 21 July 2022 07:42; Written by Peter Ingle; Hits: 2042

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.

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GDC Attempts Distancing From Its Own Fitness to Practice Process

Details: Published: Wednesday, 20 July 2022 18:58; Written by Peter Ingle; Hits: 2070

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).

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‘Modest And Marginal’ – The ‘Significant’ Changes To GDS Contract Are Crushingly Disappointing

Details: Published: Tuesday, 19 July 2022 09:33; Written by Chris Tapper; Hits: 4718

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.’”

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Dental Distraction For Tory Leadership Frontrunner

Details: Published: Monday, 18 July 2022 20:51; Written by Chris Tapper; Hits: 1709

Portsmouth North MP Penny Mordaunt faces distracting dental woes as she participates in the last stages of the fight for the Conservative Party leadership vacancy. Last night, the second placed MP dropped one vote in the latest round of voting to find a replacement for Boris Johnson.

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