Dentist shortages could be alleviated by employing more dental therapists, a leading dental academic has claimed.
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It was headlined bluntly in Hansard as, “NHS Dentistry Backlog,” being part of the latest Health and Social Care debate in the House of Commons, but did not see the government bring out its big hitters.
Over recent weeks GDPUK has highlighted numerous reports of patients unable to access an NHS dentist. Much of our reporting is gathered from the pages of local press which over the last ten days has reached a crescendo across the length and breadth of the country.
Read more: From North to South NHS Dental Crisis Is Failing Thousands
Blackadder’s assistant, Baldrick’s announcement that “I have a cunning plan,” became comic shorthand for ‘I have a ridiculous plan that really won’t help’.
The British Society of Paediatric Dentistry has newly released one of its guides on child dental care in the Ukrainian language.
‘This is a communique from the UK IPC Cell’ is not from a scene in a 1980’s movie about terrorists, but the recently published consensus statement regarding protection from COVID-19 in clinical settings.
The latest version of the NASDAL Goodwill Survey for dental practice values has just landed.
Read more: Goodwill bounces back, but NHS practice values start to lag
The British Dental Association says it is going to continue to lobby against the introduction of the “Unethical and inaccurate practice” of using dental X-rays to assess the age of undocumented child migrants.
Read more: The BDA Continues Its Fight Against ‘Unethical’ X-rays
For NHS contractors the threat of clawback feels to have grown year by year. Clawback is the process by which contactors that fail to meet UDA targets have retrospective deductions made from their scheduled payments.