The Royal Bank of Scotland has been cleared of deliberately putting small and medium enterprise customers in financial distress or out of business for its own profit in a recent report. Law firm Clifford Chance said it had found “no evidence” of wrong-doing by RBS and had found nothing to suggest small business customers had failed because of actions taken by the lender.
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Dentists are being urged to add their names to a petition opposing proposals to reduce the salary paid to Dental Foundation Trainees (DFTs) by more than £2,000. The petition, which warns of the practical implications for young dentists qualifying with increasing debts and calls for the proposal to be abandoned, has already attracted more than 5,000 signatures.
Read more: Support campaign against DFT salary cut, BDA urges
A simplified approach to the sale of incorporated dental practices is recommended by NASDAL member Russell Abrahams of Abrahams Dresden, who says that sales of dental limited companies can too easily become mired in complexity. When an incorporated dental practice is sold, he explains, a standard dental practice conveyance is combined with a company commercial transaction, featuring the most complex aspects of both.
Read more: NASDAL advises on sales of incorporated dental practices
People living in Westbury, Wiltshire have complained to a local paper saying that they were ‘outraged’ after dental appointments there were cancelled until April due to NHS funding running out. The reason given for all NHS appointments in the town throughout March being cancelled is because the allocated funding for the financial year has been exhausted.
Speaking recently to an audience at the BDA Conference, PEC Chair Dr Mick Armstrong said that dentistry was under attack from Governments, regulators and the fearfulness of politicians. He argued that the dental profession is facing a burgeoning challenge in which a double standard between the professionalism expected of it, and the lack of professionalism with which it is too-often treated, is emerging.
At the Conference of Scottish Local Dental Committees, two motions calling for the formation of a new association for Scottish dentists, to work for the best interests of Scottish dentists, were passed with a large majority.
Two people who were held are thought to be part of criminal network selling range of pirate luxury goods. Officers found products with high levels of hydrogen peroxide, can cause long-term problems to teeth, lips and gums. Police have arrested members of a gang suspected of selling counterfeit teeth whitening kits containing dangerous amounts of the bleaching agent.
Integrated Dental Holdings (IDH) has announced its acquisition of The Dental Directory supply business. Further terms of the transaction were not disclosed. With nearly 300 employees across four UK sites, services comprise field based sales teams and engineers, a dedicated UK call centre, on-line and mail order capability supported by automated picking and packing systems from a base in Witham, Essex.
Latest estimates published by healthcare experts LaingBuisson in the fourth edition of Dentistry UK Market Report, value UK primary care dentistry at £5.8bn in 2013/2014, with £3.62bn (63%) of this spent by government and patients on NHS dentistry, and £2.2bn generated from private dentistry (37%). In real terms dentistry spend is now 13% lower than its peak in 2009/2010.