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CDO’s Project Takes Shape. Is This The Future of NHS Dentistry?

NHS England began their statement announcing the Chief Dental Officer’s departure with the emphasis on the next stage of her career. Rather than lead with her past achievements they began: “Sara Hurley, the Chief Dental Officer for England is standing down after eight years in the job to focus on her new roles as a Non-Executive Director at Surrey Heartlands ICB and as an independent director at the University of Suffolk.”

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The GDC And Suicides - A Masterclass In Evasion

The unedifying saga of the GDC and its unwillingness to consider the damage to registrant mental health and suicides related to its Fitness to Practice (FtP) process, has taken a new turn. Last year the GDC had promised to provide numbers of those taking their life during FtP, and to do this in the first half of 2023. After nearly six months and a month ahead of their self imposed deadline, they have now slipped out a convoluted justification for failing to meet their own promise.

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Dental Patient Protest Group Invited To Parliament’s Round Table

Toothless In England, the dental patient protest and lobbying group, is to present its views on the NHS dental access crisis to a ‘Roundtable’ meeting of Parliament’s Health and Social Care Committee on Wednesday 7^th June.

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Dental Practices Doubling Up As ‘Tax Collectors’

The government and its spokespeople never miss an opportunity to boast about their recent ‘reforms’ to the NHS contract that have enabled dentists treating more than three teeth to claim five UDAs (up from three) underpinned by a new minimum payment to practices of £23 per UDA.

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Illegitimate Oxygen Leaves Practices Feeling Blue

It may be planet earth’s most abundant element, but are we breathing the right sort? This is the question that practices will have been asking after this week’s concern that they might have “the wrong sort” of oxygen in their emergency gas cylinders.

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GDPC As A Guide for MPs

Dentistry, in particular its availability as an NHS service, is now a regular topic of debate in parliament. On a single day recently MP’s secured debates on services in two areas, Durham and South West England, with Minister Neil O’ Brien called to answer their questions. After all this commons activity we have a pretty good idea of how MP’s would like NHS dentistry to develop. But what do dentists in general practice, who hold the key to improving access, want?

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