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’.
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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
Dentists facing NHS pension payment delays
2014-11-06
Dentists who apply for their NHS pension while erroneously listed on open NHS contracts could experience delays receiving their payments, warned Jon Drysdale. As an
Whistle blowing
2014-11-03
Neel Kothari comments on the whistle-blowing culture within the NHS. Recently, Sir Robert Francis QC (Queen’s Counsel), who led two major inquiries into failures at
LDCs create alternative dental contract
2014-10-23
Dentistry reports on an exercise pitting prototype dental contracts against ACRs. There is a strong rumour the new prototype reformed contracts are to be announced
Pulling out rotten teeth from children runs up an annual £30m bill for the taxpayer
2014-10-14
It cost the NHS £3.1m to carry out ‘minor extractions’ from under-18s, over the 2012-13 financial year, and a further £27.4m for the ‘extraction of
Michael Watson reports on the latest from the NHS dental contract
2014-10-03
It is now six months since health minister, Lord Howe, speaking at the BDA Conference outlined a timetable for reform. This summer there would be
Reaching for your personal best
2014-10-01
Nigel Jones questions where patient care fits in to the definition of success. In amongst all of the amazing sporting occasions in the past few