Trade Minister Penny Mordaunt has stepped into Portsmouth and Gosport’s NHS dental access crisis as the morale among dentists serving the area is described by a Local Dental Committee chair as “Really very low.”
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A dentist who practised in Westminster, has today been sentenced to 20 months’ imprisonment suspended for two years, after admitting falsely claiming over £74,000 from the National Health Service following an investigation by the NHS Counter Fraud Authority (NHS CFA).
Dentistry has been named as the only part of the NHS to experience an increase in antibiotic prescribing in 2020.
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A new report has said that “Discrimination and other forms of unfair treatment are evident within the NHS – at every stage of the career pipeline – despite efforts to identify and eradicate them.”
The General Dental Council has published its delayed response to its consultation on proposals for changes to Continuing Professional Development requirements.
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The World Health Organisation has added fluoride-containing preparations to its essential medicines list for children.
NHS dentistry has received support from Members of Parliament during a Public Bill Committee meeting debating the Government’s Health and Care.
Read more: MPs Support Dentists and Dental Labs In Health Bill Discussions
The extent of the NHS dental crisis was brought home to viewers yesterday, when Dr Eddie Crouch appeared on the BBC’s Breakfast programme to outline the problems facing the dental health service.
Read more: ‘I've never seen my colleagues so demoralised” – Dr Eddie Crouch
It looks like frontline NHS England staff WILL have to be fully vaccinated against COVID, after Whitehall sources told the BBC that the Government is expected to announce a deadline will be set for next spring to give unvaccinated staff time to get both doses.