In their evasive response to an FOI request from GDPUK the CQC have as good as confirmed that they are all about optics and have little interest in outcomes. This relates to their abject failure to ensure that organisations that should register, actually do.
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The value of deals in the UK Health & Social Care sector is hitting record levels and stands at £6.01bn so far for 2021, according to BLM’s Health Sector Deals Diagnosis.
With NHS dentistry in a sorry state, patients, dental teams and bureaucrats, seem to be working their way through the five stages of grief, albeit at different stages of the process.
Read more: NHS Dentistry Unravels - Central Denials and Public Anger
It may seem like putting on a mime performance for the visually impaired, but each year the BDA does it’s best to explain to those in charge, why dentists and their teams deserve to be properly paid.
The veteran Radio 4 presenter turned Times journalist Libby Purves OBE used her Times newspaper column (Monday 7th March) to throw her weight behind the tidal wave of concern surrounding the state of NHS dentistry.
Read more: Times Journalist’s outspoken appeal for NHS Dentistry
The language that gave us ‘Carte blanche’ and ‘Faux pas’ has many eloquent two word expressions, and we can now add ‘mutilation dentaire’ to the list.
Read more: The French Have Two Words For It. “Dental Mutilations”.
The consensus that the UDA system should go has grown since its conception and now even MPs and the ministers in control seem to agree.
Part of a busy GDP’s career progression was that the high speed drills and ultrasonics which they used, became quieter after a few years. Perhaps not so much as a result of improved technology but their users becoming increasingly deaf. Or so many dentists assumed.
As widely reported on GDPUK and across the mainstream media, NHS dentistry is facing an exodus of dentists and practices.
Read more: Patients Despair As Devon NHS Dentist Goes Private