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Johnny Minford looks at how COVID-19 may have changed NHS dentistry. Spring is a time of change for all sorts of reasons, not just the turning of the seasons. April marks the start of a new tax year, and a new NHS year. This year also heralds what some of us believe to be the…
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Johnny Minford looks at the biggest of the current threats to dental practices as lockdown eases. As we went through last autumn, progressing past the sometimes confusing messages given during that lockdown, there was a hopefulness in the air that practising would continue to get more straightforward. Few thought it would be ‘back to normal’…
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With figures suggesting that over half of all dentists in the UK will be female by 2020, Johnny Minford considers what this means in real terms for the profession’s finances. It was a step change for dentistry when, in 1895, Lilian Lindsay became the first qualified female dentist in the UK. In 1914, in a…
