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People on low incomes fear being wrongly fined for NHS treatments
Wrongly fining people for NHS treatment is putting those on low incomes off going to the dentist, the BDA claims. Almost…
Dentistry
What you’ve missed this week
Missed out on this week’s dental news? No problem, here’s what happened over the past seven days… NHS dentists in…
Dentistry
NHS dentistry in meltdown
There are not enough people working on dentistry at the Department of Health and Social Care, Michael Watson says. Recently this site…
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NHS dentistry experiencing a recruitment crisis
Thousands of patients are unable to see an NHS dentist due to a recruitment crisis, the Daily Mail reports. Mydentist,…
Dentistry
Dental associations jointly call for HPV vaccination
Dental associations have jointly written to the Government calling for the HPV vaccine to be extended to girls and boys. The British…
Dentistry
Evaluation of the NHS England prototype dental contracts published
The prototype dental contract clinical model works but more needs to be done on the business model, Professor Rooney says. In…
Dentistry
Putting the NHS under the spotlight
In the first of a two-part article, Sophie Hatton reports back from Simplyhealth Professionals’ second ‘If’ roundtable debate, which brought…
Private Practice
Government’s ‘stealth tax’ is making the NHS millions
The Government is being accused of charging patients a ‘stealth tax’ when they visit for an NHS dental checkup. The…
Dentistry
Close encounters of the fourth kind
The Department of Health and Social Care has missed an opportunity by repeating exactly the same model in the next…
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Department of Health and Social Care increases patient charges for dentistry
The Department of Health and Social Care has increased NHS dentistry patient charges by around 5% from April. The new…
Dentistry
Patient charges being increased
An increase in patient charges could encourage dentists to take on more children, Michael Watson says. Late last Friday, the Department of…
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Calls for UK-wide ban on sale of high energy drinks to under-16s
The British Society of Paediatric Dentistry (BSPD) has called for a UK-wide ban on the sale of high energy drinks for…
Oral health