GDC launches a new pilot scheme this month
2015-01-13
A pilot scheme is being launched by the General Dental Council (GDC) this month, which will aim to ensure that concerns about dentist’s performance are
NHS
Further pay squeeze looms
2015-01-12
Dentists face a further pay squeeze whoever wins the general election, following the first sparring in the four-month campaign. Labour responded to Conservative allegations that
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
Team games
2015-01-06
Michelle Hardy discusses independence from the NHS and how best to involve your practice team to make the change a success. Converting from NHS practice
NHS contracts and considering your options
2014-12-16
Josie Hutchings contemplates the progression of the new NHS contracts and the options a dental practitioner could consider in the future. Following the recent debate
Thinking of going private? Time to embrace marketing into your practice
2014-12-15
Les Jones discusses how important it is to market your practice if you’re looking to go private, and gives some easy tips on how to
Patients forced to wait a year for an NHS dentist appointment
2014-12-05
The Hebridean islands of Jura and Islay have been left with one part-time NHS dentist meaning patients are being told to ‘come back in a year’.
Early findings from the dental contract reform engagement exercise
2014-12-01
The Department of Health conducted a dental contract reform engagement exercise this summer to test elements of a registration and capitation model that, if implemented, would replace
Dentists missing out on IT
2014-11-28
Dentists have missed out on ambitious plans to make using the rest of the NHS as simple as online banking – despite long-standing protests about
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
The NHS evolution and your options
2014-11-26
Nigel Jones discusses NHS dentistry, its evolution and what it could mean for NHS practitioners and their options for the future. Although a precedent exists
Dentists face critical NHS pension decision
2014-11-25
Thousands of dentists who qualified before 2008 have just a few months to decide which NHS pension scheme will be best for them in the
