'NHS' Blog Posts

• Dental contract reform: Can we ditch the UDA system for good?

  Henrik Overgaard-Nielsen outlines some of the key points from the Government's report on the progress of the dental prototype practices in their first year, and what this might mean for the future of NHS dentistry.

  Blog Date 5 June, 2018

• Big changes proposed for NHS dentistry in Scotland - how will it affect you?

  The Scottish Government's Oral Health Improvement represents the biggest shake up of NHS dentistry in Scotland for decades - we need to hear your views on the proposals.

  Blog Date 17 April, 2018

• LDC Conference 2018: looking forward to the debate

  The programme for LDC Conference 2018 is shaping up and lots of issues on the agenda should encourage a lively debate - have you booked yet?

  Blog Date 4 April, 2018

• Young dentists views must be heard on dental training reform

  Proposed plans for changing dental training could have a massive impact on the future of the profession: Nikki Patel explains why young dentists need to be consulted, and their views listened too.

  Blog Date 19 March, 2018

• What does being an Irish dentist mean in a Brexit Britain?

  One young dentist from Ireland talks about how she feels about working in England, following the Brexit decision, and considers what impact this might have on the dental workforce.

  Blog Date 24 January, 2018

• My experience of being a mother and dentist

  Annan Salim is an associate dentist at a health centre in Greater Manchester and carries out mainly NHS dentistry. She tells us about her experience of working in a high-needs area and seeing patients with preventable decay, and her insights on becoming a mother, and tackling the 'sugar issue'.

  Blog Date 4 December, 2017

• Stand up to mouth cancer: dentist offers MPs an oral cancer check

  Check out what happened at the most recent All-Party Parliamentary Group for Dentistry and Oral Health, an event focused on the topic of oral cancers, raising awareness of risk factors and inviting MPs to get their mouths checked by a dentist.

  Blog Date 30 November, 2017

• Dental general anaesthetics for kids: is it ever a 'simple choice'?

  Community dentist, Thoraya Bradbury, discusses the issue of general anaesthetics for children requiring dental care, and where you can find out more to support you in practice.

  Blog Date 28 November, 2017

• Nothing to smile about? MPs join us in speaking out on kids' oral health

  Mick Armstrong says now is the time for action on oral health inequalities, and outlines the support we've had from our members and politicians, for getting this issue raised.

  Blog Date 15 November, 2017

• Rising to the challenge? The future of work for young dentists

  Harman Chahal asks what lies ahead for young dentists, in the face of many saying they are increasingly frustrated with the NHS.

  Blog Date 25 October, 2017

• Choking the life out of dentistry: declining pay

  Henrik Overgaard Nielsen takes a look at the new figures from NHS Digital, showing that taxable income for high street NHS dentists continues to decline. The future for NHS dental patients is not looking very bright.

  Blog Date 20 September, 2017

• A 'bonkers' system: the contract in press and parliament

  Eddie Crouch tell us why he thinks the current system of commissoning is 'bonkers' and what we've been doing to highlight the issue in the press and to Parliament.

  Blog Date 13 September, 2017

• Getting your ducks in a row how changes to the state pension might affect dentists

  With news that the Government is proposing a change to the State Pension age from 67 to 68, our new Head of Pensions, Phil McEvoy, takes a look at how this, and other changes, may affect dentists and what you should do.

  Blog Date 2 August, 2017

• The one per cent solution

  Dentists incomes have fallen 35% in real terms income over the last decade. Henrik Overgaard Nielsen gives his view on the public sector pay cap and what it means for dentistry.

  Blog Date 5 July, 2017

• What devolution in Manchester means to me

  Claire Stevens talks about the work happening in Manchester to improve children's oral health, using a collaborative approach focusing on prevention first in dentistry.

  Blog Date 9 May, 2017

• Capita and Performers List: a dentist down the rabbit hole

  ​I recently qualified as a dentist in the UK, spending thousands of pounds on applications, registration, exams, CPD and preparation courses to be able to work in the UK.

  Blog Date 10 March, 2017

• Stress and Fitness to Practise cases: does one follow the other?

  David Westgarth explored the relationship between the rising number of fitness to practise cases, the reasons for it, and resulting stress this is causing dentists.

  Blog Date 6 March, 2017

• Workplace stress for dentists in Scotland: an undocumented problem?

  Pat Kilpatrick explains why she thinks dentists are the forgotten profession when it comes to revealing the scale of the problem of stress and what the BDA is doing on this issue.

  Blog Date 15 February, 2017

• NHS dentistry or private what’s right for you

  Rob Chaffe gives some tips on the often asked question from young dentists: should you work in the NHS or go private?

  Blog Date 25 January, 2017

• A road block for dentists and patients: Capita incompetence

  It’s a bizarre world when hundreds of thousands of patients with dental problems are pitching up at A&E or seeing their GP, who are usually unable to treat these patients.

  Blog Date 17 January, 2017