Jason Wong, chief dental officer (CDO) for England, shares some insight on incoming changes to the NHS dental contract and what practices can expect from them.
This April sees the roll-out of a series of important reforms to the NHS dental contract.
These reforms mark a significant step forward for NHS dentistry and are designed to provide better support for practices and deliver improved care and outcomes for patients.
Dentists and dental teams have continued to deliver care in challenging circumstances with rising demand, long waits for appointments for patients and growing complexity of needs. Those pressures made clear that change was needed to reform modern practice and support teams to deliver NHS care effectively.
Building on previous reforms
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