Archive for the ‘NHS dental care news’ Category

Dentists to be paid per patient not per treatment: ministers

Thursday, December 16th, 2010

Contracts which paid dentists according to the number of procedures they carried out are to be torn up and replaced with a per patient fee to encourage more preventive dental work and better oral health.

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Patients Can’t Find NHS Dentist… So They Pull Teeth Out with Pliers

Monday, November 1st, 2010

HUNDREDS of desperate patients pull out their teeth with PLIERS because they cannot find an NHS dentist, shock figures reveal today.

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NHS to bring in charges for orthodontic treatment (Northern Ireland)

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

A new plan to charge for orthodontic treatment in Northern Ireland has been branded a “tax on children’s smiles”.

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Dental charges frozen

Friday, March 26th, 2010

Dental charges will be frozen from 1 April.

The cost of NHS dental charges in England are to remain at £16.50 for band one, £45.60 for band two and £198 for band three treatments.

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U-turn as dentists’ pay to be linked to patient numbers to help millions denied access

Friday, March 12th, 2010

Dentists across the country will have their pay linked to the number of patients on their books in a Government u-turn designed to help millions denied treatment.

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Green Party Proposes Free Dental Health Care For All

Monday, March 1st, 2010

Article from the Green Party on the eGovmonitor website.

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How many teeth do we need?

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

That’s the difficult question we may now have to face, as a new payment system for dentists is set to change the way we look after our teeth.

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Is NHS dentistry in slow decay?

Monday, January 18th, 2010

Julia Vorley has traveled from Alrewas in Staffordshire to Budapest, Hungary, to get essential dental treatment.

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NHS ‘could save millions’ by flying patients to India

Sunday, January 17th, 2010

Experts urge Department of Health to consider using hospitals outside Europe.

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Want to fix the NHS? Go private

Friday, November 27th, 2009

When a hospital fails in the way that the Basildon and Thurrock Trust has, it should be turned over immediately to a private-sector hit squad to sort it out, writes Simon Heffer.

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