HMRCs new Making Tax Digital (MTD) scheme will present ‘a severe headache’ for the majority of dentists and be yet another cost that they will have to cover. That’s according to NASDAL. Alan Suggett, media officer of NASDAL said: “The aims of the scheme appear to be laudable in terms of simplifying and making the tax system more efficient. However, the dental sector will face specific challenges.”
The Chairs of three House of Commons Select Committees are urging the Prime Minister to reach a cross-party agreement on the future of health and social care funding in a published letter. The letter has been sent by Sarah Wollaston MP, Chair of the Health Committee, and the chairs of the Public Accounts Committee, and the Communities and Local Government Committee.
The chair of the BDA’s General Dental Practice Committee, Henrik Overgaard-Nielsen, was interviewed live on the Radio 4 consumer programme You & Yours which focused on delays in dentists receiving performer list numbers from Capita. He criticised government for outsourcing services to the cheapest provider.
More than 100,000 casualty visits a year are caused by toothache, reports The Times It is costing the NHS millions and clogging up Accident and Emergency departments. Justin Durham, the consultant oral surgeon at Newcastle University who lead the research, said: “It’s quite surprising how many patients we are seeing. They will be in pain and a lot of it.”
In a number of announcements before the recess the Government has confirmed that the standard of Capita’s work under its (primary care) contract has not been acceptable, on the costs of child extractions in hospital and a new health minister in the House of Lords.
The two-week misconduct hearing which saw Desmond D'Mello removed from the register, and his dental nurse Caroline Surgey censured, cost more than £130,000. Figures released by the GDC show legal fees cost £108,066. In addition, £16,775 was spent on costs for the three panellists, including fees, expenses for travel, accommodation and subsistence, while the bill for a legal adviser ran to £13,350.
An unconfirmed report from Sky News says that Southern Dental boss, Dr Mazdak Eyrumlu has hired DC Advisory to oversee the third attempt to sell his company since 2014. The company is the third biggest provider of NHS dental services abd is valued by the owner at up to £100million.
According to Public Health England (PHE) children consume half the daily recommended sugar intake before the morning school bell rings. They eat more than 11g of sugar at breakfast time alone, almost 3 sugar cubes. The recommended daily maximum is no more than 5 cubes of sugar for 4- to 6-year-olds and no more than 6 cubes for 7- to 10-year-olds per day.
Over 1,000 dental professionals have signed a letter drafted by GDPUK member, Tony Kilcoyne, which appeared in the Daily Telegraph on January 2, 2017. It says that the NHS dental system in England has ‘catastrophically’ failed the public and calls for it to be removed out of ‘politicians’ incompetent hands’ completely.
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