UDA system scrapped in Welsh dental contract reforms
2025-09-23
A significant overhaul has been announced for the NHS dental contract in Wales, with a fresh focus on prevention and oral health need. Released today
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Kevin Lewis – new year, same problems
2024-02-01
It may be a time for contemplating the future, but Kevin Lewis suggests that we shouldn’t ignore the clues and problems from the past. Welcome
Are associates and dental nurses being forgotten in NHS dentistry?
2023-07-19
Dental professionals have warned that dental associates and dental nurses are being forgotten as talks considering dental reform continue. Last week, the Health and Social
New parliamentary inquiry could save NHS dentistry
2022-12-08
‘The last best hope to save the service’: parliament has launched a new inquiry into the state of NHS dentistry following alarming statistics. The Health
How much attention have you paid to the dental news this week? – 3 December 2022
2022-12-03
Missed out on last week’s dental news? Here’s what happened over the past seven days… Overseas registration in dentistry to be made easier That’s right
How to make the NHS prototype contracts work
2020-01-29
Simon Flaherty explains how he made the NHS prototype contracts work in his practice, Alverna House. Reviews of the NHS prototypes are mixed after being
What’s next for NHS dentistry?
2020-01-10
Practice Plan is hosting events up and down the country sharing information on NHS dental contract reforming and working out what’s next for NHS dentistry.
‘It’s taking a long time, but we’re getting there’ Sara Hurley says on contract reform
2019-07-04
Sara Hurley says the current prototypes are looking ‘favourable’ in terms of providing clinical results. Speaking today at the Westminster Health Forum, the chief dental
Dave Cottam elected new chair of the GDPC
2019-06-20
Photo left to right: Mick Armstrong, Vijay Sudra, Leah Farrell, Dave Cottam, Shawn Charlwood, Nilesh Patel and Nick Stolls Dave Cottam is the new chair
The impact being in a prototype has had on my practice and patients
2019-06-07
What better way to know more about how the contract reform process could impact you specifically, than asking someone who has spent years trialling it?
One year since I left the prototype programme…
2019-03-22
Fliss McCalmont spoke to Joe Hendron a year after he withdrew his practice from the prototype programme. A little over a year ago, Joe Hendron wrote an open
Is working in NHS dentistry like being in a pot of boiling water?
2019-03-19
A bunch of frogs in a pot of boiling water trying to negotiate how fast the temperature is being turned up. That’s the analogy Simon
