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Clinical freedom in a time of austerity
Clinical freedom is becoming an aspiration rather than reality, Alun Rees admits. I regularly have to straddle a line between…
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Fresh calls for NHS dental budget reform
The NHS dental budget would be better spent elsewhere than on routine scaling and polishing of teeth. That’s according to a…
Dentistry
Diamond design
Belmont celebrates its 60th anniversary, explaining what it currently stands for and what its products can do. This year marks the…
Private Practice
Survey asks dentists about contract reform, the GDC and mental health
A year before the new NHS contract is rolled out, a survey is being launched to ask dentists for their…
Dentistry
Dentists support move to core service for NHS dentistry
More than three quarters (77%) of dentists would support a government move to a core NHS dental service. The 2018…
Dentistry
Confidence in NHS dentistry low
Many dentists lack confidence in the future of NHS dentistry, results from the 2018 NHS Confidence Monitor show. The survey,…
Dentistry
Anxiety levels high across dentistry
Dentists across both NHS and private dentistry are anxious about complaints and litigation according to the results of the 2018…
Dentistry
Unhappiness rife amongst NHS dentists
Happiness amongst NHS dentists is dropping to new lows, according to the 2018 NHS Confidence Monitor survey from Practice Plan.…
Dentistry
NHS dentistry facing mass exodus of dentists
NHS dentistry is facing a potential mass exodus, with 86% of dentists looking to leave in the next five years.…
Dentistry
One year since I left the prototype programme…
Fliss McCalmont spoke to Joe Hendron a year after he withdrew his practice from the prototype programme. A little over a year ago,…
Dentistry
UK schools ranked last for providing oral health education
UK schools rank last for promoting good oral health, according to an FDI World Dental Federation (FDI) survey. Only 29% of parents…
Oral health
Dentistry seeing the highest growing salaries in the UK, data shows
Dentistry experiencing some of the highest growing salaries in the UK, according to job listing site Indeed. Its data shows new…
Dentistry
New guidance on oral care for people with learning disabilities
Public Health England is publishing new guidance on the oral care and treatment for people with learning disabilities. Oral care…
Oral health
Whose time is it anyway? Part two
Practice cannot increase the number of hours they are open, or increase shifts, if it will result in dentists not…
Blog
Is working in NHS dentistry like being in a pot of boiling water?
A bunch of frogs in a pot of boiling water trying to negotiate how fast the temperature is being turned…
Dentistry
BDA urges Mayor of London to tackle capital’s oral health inequalities
The BDA is urging Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London, to tackle oral health inequalities amongst children in the capital. An…
Oral health
What you’ve missed this week
Missed out on this week’s dental news? No problem, here’s what happened over the past seven days… Dental charges set…
Dentistry
The drugs don’t work
Ian Mills lifts the lid on responsible prescribing. At this time of year, we are all aware of the spread…
Blog
Royal College calls for pensions changes to protect NHS workforce
Senior Scottish doctor writes to the Chancellor of the Exchequer ahead of tomorrow’s Spring Statement to ask for action to…
Dentistry