Dentistry
Ahead of Wednesday’s Budget, the Medical Defence Union (MDU) has issued an open letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer urging her to take decisive action to tackle the soaring legal costs of clinical negligence claims. In the last year alone, the NHS spent more than £800 million on legal fees relating to clinical negligence… Read more »
The Supreme Court has ruled in favour of a non-religious father and his child that the exclusively Christian teaching of Religious Education (RE) and collective worship in Northern Ireland are ‘indoctrination’. Alongside mandatory Christian collective worship and a ‘stigmatising’ right of withdrawal, this is therefore discriminatory under human rights law. This ruling will have wide-ranging… Read more »
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Trainee dentists will be allocated to areas with the greatest patient demand, the government announced today. Amid concerns that younger dentists are rejected the NHS in favour of lucrative private work, the government has announced measures to target trainee dentists at areas most in need of NHS services. Forty extra vocational training places will be… Read more »
Many patients are being forced to go private or even treat themselves, according to a new survey of dentistry in England. Following the introduction of new dental contracts for NHS dentists in April 2006, the Dentistry Watch study from the Commission for Patient and Public Involvement in Health (CPPIH), polled 5,212 patients and 750 dentists… Read more »
