NHS

GDC launches new scheme to encourage local resolution

The General Dental Council (GDC) has introduced a new process of dealing with complaints, encouraging local resolution. Following a pilot…

Dentistry

Profession calls for more positive messages about NHS dentistry

NHS dentistry should be conveyed more positively in the national press, according to the latest NHS Confidence Monitor survey results. Dental professionals…

Dentistry

The changing face of dentistry

The future of dentistry will move responsibility away from the associates to the contract holders, Michael Watson says. Last week NHS…

Dentistry

From NHS to private: a shared vision for success

Just over a decade ago, The Priors Dental Practice’s principal Mark Emms and practice manager Lindsey Edwards made the decision…

Dentistry Features

Dentists’ income drops by 15.7% in the last five years

NHS contract holders’ average taxable income in England and Wales dropped 15.7% in the last five years to £117,400 in…

Dentistry

There should be no more part-funded NHS treatments

It is time for the NHS to list what is available on the NHS, and what will be privately funded,…

Dentistry

NHS charges ‘driving patients to GPs’

NHS dental charges are driving patients to visit GPs rather than dentists, new analysis from the British Dental Association (BDA) has…

Dentistry

Dentistry voices grave concerns over UDA allocations

Julian English and Neel Kothari send a letter to Sara Hurley, Ian Brack and David Mowat MP, highlighting the high number…

Dentistry

‘We’re on our own’ after childhood obesity strategy fails to tackle oral health issues

Michael Watson says the profession is on its own after the childhood obesity strategy failed to prioritise oral health. Aesop’s…

Dentistry

What does the UDA contract pay for?

Michael Watson explains how the UDA system came about and how it is supposed to work in the practice. The…

Dentistry

NHS dentists accused of extracting teeth unnecessarily

NHS dentists have been accused of extracting teeth unnecessarily because it is more lucrative than saving them. That’s according to…

Dentistry

Was I imagining it?

With all the political reshuffling going on and a vote for Brexit, Kevin Lewis tries to make sense of it…

Dentistry

Dental contract, described as ‘high priority’, to be introduced in 2018

A Health Minister has insisted the new dental contract is a ‘very high government priority’ – despite the long delay in…

Dentistry

Improving oral health in care homes

The oral health of older people living in care homes needs to be given more priority, Michael Watson says. A…

Oral health

Dentists acting as ‘tax collectors’, government told

Dentists are being forced to act as ‘tax collectors’, ministers have been told – with no guarantee that the money…

Dentistry

Thoughts on a time-limited offer

With the prospect of time-limited contracts hanging in the air for NHS contract holders, understandably the topic has been of…

Dentistry Features

Government reshuffle means ‘no excuse for unfinished business’

The BDA has said there’s ‘no excuse for unfinished business’ with the appointment of Jeremy Hunt as Secretary of State…

Dentistry

Politicians should be honest with the public about the NHS

Michael Watson reviews a new report from the King’s Fund calling on the government to be honest with the public…

Dentistry

Jump in the number of dental professionals performing ‘too many’ UDAs

The number of individual dental professionals performing more than 18,000 UDAs in England and Wales has jumped over the past…

Dentistry