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Published: Monday, 22 October 2018 07:38
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Property adviser, Christie & Co has published its report on the UK dental market, ‘The Dental Industry 2018: Staffing, Brexit and the Dentist Shortage.’ This provides an overview of the dental market and presents research on the sector’s dentist shortage and key staffing challenges, emerging workforce trends, and regional differences in relation to supply and NHS dentists’ pay rates.
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Published: Thursday, 18 October 2018 07:46
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Nine in ten dental practices are offering safe, effective, caring and responsive care and treatment, the CQC says in its latest State of Care assessment. Inspections by them found practices were giving patients evidence-based advice on improving oral health and where practice teams have used innovative ways to target children and prevent dental disease.
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Published: Wednesday, 17 October 2018 07:37
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In reply to a Parliamentary Question from Bernard Jenkin MP for Harwich and North Essex, health minister Stephen Barclay disclosed that, in the five calendar years 2013/17, a total of 19 suicide deaths of dentists in England and 3 in Wales were recorded. This compares with 83 doctors in England and 6 in Wales.
Read more: Minister discloses figures of dental suicides
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Published: Tuesday, 16 October 2018 04:58
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The CDO England has issued a reminder to dental health care professionals on the need to conserve supplies of EpiPen for ‘patients who truly need them’. In answer to a Parliamentary Question, junior minister Steve Brine MP admitted that Mylan, the supplier of Epipens, had experienced ‘ongoing supply issues’ for the product.
Read more: CDO England issues advice for EpiPens in dental practices
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Published: Tuesday, 16 October 2018 04:57
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The winners of the NASDAL Dental Check by One Practice of the Year 2018 Award and the £1000 prize are The Maltings Dental Practice, Grantham, Lincolnshire. At BDIA Showcase CDO England, Sara Hurley, presented the inaugural NASDAL (The Association of Specialist Dental Accountants and Lawyers) Dental Check by One Practice of the Year Award.
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Published: Monday, 15 October 2018 07:35
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A quarter of a million NHS workers opted out of the pension scheme over the past three years, with experts blaming a “punitive” government tax regime and the current cost of living, the HSJ has revealed. Their investigation found 245,561 people opted out of the scheme between 2015 and 2017, with 102,755 opting out in 2016 alone, representing a 78% increase from the previous year.
Read more: NHS workers opting out of “gold-plated” pension
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Published: Thursday, 11 October 2018 07:52
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Around 25% of evening and weekend appointments are being left unfilled, a Pulse investigation revealed on the day the policy was being rolled out across England. A Freedom of Information request by the publication which was answered in full by 80 CCGs, shows that across those around half a million appointment slots have been left empty on evenings and weekends.
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Published: Wednesday, 10 October 2018 07:36
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Imports of prosecco to the UK fell by 7% this year after a decade of growth and dentists are being blamed for it. An Italian farmers group put the blame on the ‘fake news’ designed to discredit the Italian drink which seems to have had an impact on sales, they said.
Read more: Now dentists are being blamed for fall in Prosecco sales
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Published: Tuesday, 09 October 2018 07:44
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London Mayor, Sadiq Khan, has made commitments on oral health in the new London Health Inequalities Strategy. The document outlines ambitions to see partners take further action on improving child oral health, including access to dental care, particularly targeted on those communities least likely to be attend a dentist.
Read more: Mayor of London outlines his oral health ambitions
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