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Published: Thursday, 10 March 2011 13:49
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Former Labour minister, Lord Hutton, has published his final report with its main recommendation is that public sector pensions should no longer be related to final salaries. Instead, by 2015 pensions should be related to average salaries over a career. This is the way in which NHS pensions of general dental practitioners are calculated so they should not be affected by the proposals.
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Published: Tuesday, 08 March 2011 17:19
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Dr Mark Walsh, a 44 year old dentist currently working at Oasis Dental Care Ltd in Durham, plans to climb Mount Everest in April 2011 to raise money for the BDA Benevolent Fund. The Fund provides financial support to dentists and their families. If you would like to support Dr Walsh and make a donation to the Fund, please contact him on This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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Read more: Climbing Everest for Ben Fund
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Published: Saturday, 05 March 2011 12:26
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Regulations have been laid to increase NHS dental charges in England from 1 April 2011. The charge for a band one course of treatment will increase by 50p from £16.50 to £17. For a band 2 course of treatment it will increase by £1.40 from £45.60 to £47. The charge for a band 3 course of treatment will increase by £6 from £198 to £204. These fees are deducted from NHS payments to dentists, so the rise is a further increase of taxation of patients who pay for their NHS dental treatment.
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Read more: NHS dental charges to rise in England
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Published: Saturday, 05 March 2011 12:23
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A Shropshire dentist who broke wind around patients has been struck off the Dentists Register for misconduct. The ban takes immediate effect. Matthew Walton, 35, found it ‘funny’ to break wind next to colleagues when they were trying to eat their lunch. The hearing was also told he also went behind the chair to make V-signs, as well as offending patients by demanding to see their cash before starting treatment.
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Read more: Shropshire dentist struck off
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Published: Monday, 28 February 2011 16:56
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Scotland’s Children’s Minister Adam Ingram has confirmed that Scotland’s Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme goes live on 28 February 2011. The Scheme had been due to start last November but Ministers took the decision to postpone its introduction to ensure the system which supports it is fully fit for purpose and robust.
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Read more: Scotland's protection scheme starts
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Published: Monday, 28 February 2011 16:47
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The cost of seeing a dentist will be frozen at its 2006 level, Welsh Health Minister Edwina Hart has announced. She said “By freezing dental charges in Wales for the fifth year running, we are maintaining access to NHS dentistry for the people of Wales, ensuring charges remain affordable and in doing so helping to tackle oral health inequalities.
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Read more: NHS Charges in Wales frozen again
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Published: Monday, 28 February 2011 16:38
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| The NHS Information Centre has published its latest figures on access and treatment. For the fifth consecutive quarter, the number of patients seen has exceeded the March 2006 baseline; when the current dental contract was introduced. A total of 28.9 million patients were seen, an increase of 2.7 per cent on 2006. The percentage of the population seen by an NHS dentist, at 55.8 per cent, is equal to the March 2006 level.
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Read more: NHS access continues to improve - slowly
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