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

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