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Published: Wednesday, 26 June 2024 07:36
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Written by Peter Ingle
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Governments and health providers, understandably, like simple solutions. They can be low cost, easy to set up, staff and run. As a bonus, a general public with short attention spans are more likely to understand and appreciate them than more complex or nuanced offerings. This might explain the renewed focus on tooth brushing in schools, with two new stories showing that rolling out brushing instruction is becoming an on-trend dental public health activity.
Read more: Toothbrushing, Easy Political Answer or Meaningful Prevention?
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Published: Tuesday, 25 June 2024 08:30
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Written by Peter Ingle
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“It is sometimes suggested to us that the GDC inflates concerns out of all proportion to their seriousness, often progressing cases all the way to a hearing when they could be resolved earlier.” So writes Clare Callan on the GDC website. Clare is the Associate Director of Fitness to Practice (FTP) at the GDC.
Read more: Positive News from the GDC
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Published: Monday, 24 June 2024 07:48
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Written by Peter Ingle
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Politicians love catchy slogans and soundbites. It may be too early to know what expressions the current election will bring to a wider audience, though readers may remember “education, education, education” from 1997, and smile wistfully when they recollect the promise of “strong and stable” leadership, in 2017.
Read more: Popular Myths: Unicorns, the Tooth Fairy, and NHS Dentistry For All.
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Published: Friday, 21 June 2024 05:10
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Thousands of NHS patients face ’disaster’ after a dental practice was ordered to close by the NHS. Sefton Dental Centre, a practice in Bootle, estimated that it cared for 7,000 patients under the NHS. Located in one of the most deprived areas in the country, it saw many vulnerable patients with complex needs. It has now been ordered to close.
Read more: NHS Force Closure of Practice in High Needs Area
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Published: Thursday, 20 June 2024 06:50
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A recent BBC report used biblical language in a story about NHS dentistry in Northern Ireland. This was not a report on sectarian disputes, but about dentistry, and the terms felt appropriate were of an ‘exodus’ that was ‘coming to pass’. The group seeking freedom from oppression on this occasion, are dentists with NHS contracts. Indeed so many wish to leave the scheme that there is now a waiting list for would be leavers and their soon-to-be former patients.
Read more: NI: Queuing to Leave NHS Dentistry
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Published: Tuesday, 18 June 2024 06:33
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Written by Peter Ingle
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As the election campaigning ploughs on, two contrasting announcements shed some light on the gulf between the profession and our elected leaders. Indemnifier, The Dental Defence Union (DDU) have released details of responses to their recent survey of their members.
Read more: What Dentists Want from Party Manifestos
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Published: Wednesday, 12 June 2024 10:08
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Written by Peter Ingle
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The outgoing government’s last Primary care minister dealing with dentistry, was Andrea Leadsom. She recently announced that she would not be seeking re-election. The political career of an MP who was in the running to be Prime Minister in 2016, has come to a lower profile close than she once hoped.
Read more: Andrea Leadsom's Parting Shot for Dentistry
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