Readers above a certain age will remember only too well queueing up to ‘open wide’ for an examination by the school dental service.
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The BDA Benevolent Fund has announced that it processed an increase in applications for help during and following the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Eddie Crouch, Chair of the BDA Principal Executive Committee is probably the most high profile member of the BDA top team, and is frequently interviewed and quoted. He has had a letter published in The Guardian, it was not entirely about dentistry.
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English dentists trying to predict what lies in store for them could do a lot worse than speak to their Welsh colleagues. The BBC News website is now carrying a story headlined, “NHS: Dentist check-ups in Wales cut to once a year”
Anti-Social Behaviour (‘ASB’) is no stranger to providers of healthcare. Encompassing patients who are rude and fractious to downright aggressive, most dentists or their teams will have encountered it and in some locations, not just as rare, isolated incidents.
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The Government Health and Social Care Committee has concluded that the NHS dental contract is “not fit for purpose.”
Read more: Not Fit For Purpose – Commons Health Committee Verdict On NHS Contract
The Review Body on Doctors’ and Dentists’ Remuneration (DDRB) has delivered its 50th report.
Set up in 1971 it is the body which will make recommendations to Government across the UK on the remuneration of doctors and dentists taking any part in the National Health Service.
Read more: Independent Review Body Justifies 4.5% Increase To Dentists
Britain’s accelerating ‘Summer of Discontent’ stands to enrol the dental profession as the British Dental Association warns of the consequences of soaring inflation on the delivery of dentistry.
The first oral questions faced by the new Secretary of State for Health and Social Care in the Commons on Tuesday, related to NHS dental services access.
Read more: New Health Secretary Slips Up During His First Commons Dental Question