And now for something completely different

2015-02-23

And now for something completely different – to borrow a phrase from Monty Python. For a change this week I will write about politics, not

What is the purpose of the GDC?

2015-02-17

The Government’s response to the Law Commission’s report on the regulation of health and social care professionals is neither an easy nor a light read.

More people being seen under the NHS

2015-02-12

A total of 30 million patients were seen in the 24-month period ending 31 December, 2014, which is an increase of 1.9 million on March

Study suggests oral screening a role for the dental team

2015-02-09

Fiona Sandom, who is president of the British Association of Dental Therapists (BADT), has drawn our attention to a new study suggesting dental hygienists and

Michael Watson questions what is available under the NHS?

2015-02-05

Last month Which? launched a campaign to ‘clean up dental costs’, with a lurid picture of a sweating patient being attacked by an ice-pick wielding

GDC to co-operate with NHS England

2015-01-26

The General Dental Council (GDC) and NHS England will launch a pilot scheme, which will aim to ensure that concerns about a dentist’s NHS performance

A closer look at the prototype contracts

2015-01-19

What will dentists think of the prototype contracts announced last week? Those who wanted to see the back of the units of dental activity (UDAs) will

The new dental contract prototypes explained

2015-01-16

The long awaited proposals for dental contract prototypes have now been released by the Department of Health. It was at the British Dental Association conference

New Year’s resolutions

2015-01-12

Seventeen days is the average period during that we adhere to New Year’s resolutions apparently. So by this time in January most of us will have consigned

Michael Watson reviews the letter published in the Daily Telegraph

2015-01-07

On 2 January the Daily Telegraph published a letter signed by over one hundred dentists, a new version of the letter printed in the same

The search for a new dental contract

2014-11-26

Michael Watson explains how the current dental contract could be made to work, and why it currently isn’t. Long before Harry Potter, medieval alchemists were searching

Michael Watson asks questions of the recent 22,000-patient recall

2014-11-17

Last week’s media frenzy about the recall of 22,000 patients of a Nottingham dentist seen over a period of 30 years raises a number of