dental practice July 2009
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An age of uncertainty
NHS. But even if this is true, are there patient charge revenue is not apparent.
Continued from page 1 sufficient jobs for them and who will They want meaningful consultation
up and selling new practices. They will pay for them? and proper piloting, which is laudable,
look at longer-term deals, which will In the longer-term, the Conservatives but it all adds up to more uncertainty
provide the certainty investors need to intend to move to a system where about the future for dentists, Primary
buy into NHS dentistry. They will also patients can “register with a dentist and Care Trusts and, most important,
examine ways to eliminate Primary have the certainty that they can access patients.
Care Trust interference in the sale of the care they need”. I do question whether these
contracts with goodwill, subject to due The number of patients on the list proposals are workable and whether
diligence. would partially form the means by we would not be better to have some
Dentists will be less enthusiastic which dentists would be paid, cross-party agreement based, perhaps,
about a proposal for a five-year tie-in ‘”replacing the current fixed treatment on the findings of the Jimmy Steele
Surgery design - We offer you: - to the NHS for newly-qualified quotas”. But how this would generate review.
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Dental Officer
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expenses
at Denplan.
He spent 22
Hague Dental Supplies of_f er sales,
years working
design and engineering services
to the dental industry. it as a convenient proxy for morality.
in general
In London, Hague have one of
the largest showrooms in the UK,
F
OR what now seems like
months, we have been Consider that an army of tax
dental practice,
bombarded with media reports accountants labours every year to scour
followed by employment as
viewings are available by
appointment (inc out of hours).
of MPs and their expenses. Moat the farthest dingy recesses of the
a dento-legal adviser for the
Hague also of_f er engineering and
cleaning, duck islands and even 59p Finance Act to secure for their clients a
Medical Defence Union. He also
maintenance service packages on
boxes of matches have figured little extra tax relief here, and an
holds a Masters in Healthcare
your equipment at agreed intervals
unrelentingly, and public disapproval additional marginal easing there.
Quality Assurance.
to suit your needs. At the depot, in
Surrey, Hague stock a huge selection
has turned to anger and fury. There’s something of an analogy,
of parts and equipment – in order to No doubt the European elections, too, with the way NHS dentists are The words of Sir Kenneth
get you back up and running fast
just a day or two away as I write, will paid. Under the “old” system, the
Bloomfield – a previous reviewer of
in an emergency.
be the watershed of despair for archaic fee structure required incredible
the NHS dental system in 1992 – might
Engineering solutions – electorate and Government alike. The
attention to detail and pages of small give Professor Jimmy Steele pause for
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Minister for Dentistry has not escaped, print: and many a claim has gone to a
thought.
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O U T v S O L U T I O N F R O M
O U R O W N E N G I N E E R S as she and her MP husband have
Protection Society with the dentist’s He wrote: “Over the years we have
s & U L L D I A G N O S T I C A N D R E P A I R F A C I L I T I E S W I T H
claimed mortgage expenses on both defence: “Well, the DPB approved it.”
ended up with a system which is very
T R A I N E D E X P E R I E N C E D E N G I N E E R S
s 3 E R V I C E P A C K A G E S F O R N E W A N D E X I S T I N G
their home (a 30-minute Underground Under the new contract, the even
efficient at paying dentists, but not so
E Q U I P M E N T A T A G R E E D I N T E R V A L S
ride from Westminster) and a Thames- more serpentine structure of the UDA
successful at improving oral health.”
s ! V A S T S T O C K O F P A R T S A N D E Q U I P M E N
side apartment.
T
A V A I L A B L E F R O M O U R D E P O T I N 3 U R R E Y n I N
target system has led to all manner of Now, it seems we have a system
O R D E R T O G E T Y O U B A C K U P A N D R U N N I N G
F A S T I N A N E M E R G E N C Y
As so often happens in such oblique activity. No fewer than one in
which has attracted unequalled
s & U L L T E L E P H O N E S U P P O R T A N D O U T O F
campaigns, the majority of MPs who five NHS patients returns for further
opposition from dentists, and is still
H O U R S S E R V I C I N G
have legitimately claimed for expenses treatment within three months, it is
some way from providing full access,
“wholly and necessarily” in connection reported, and while complex
let alone improving health.
Hague Dental Supplies Ltd
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MPs’ expenses, NHS dental
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the media lynch-mob. (according to some estimates),
contracts – both systems are
Tooting Broadway, London
And significantly, many of those put extractions have risen.
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on front-page trial by journalists (some It would, once again, be easy to
use them as an excuse. A system is
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needed, but one that is fair, transparent
a bit of expense-claiming) have in the full glare of publicity, how would
and above all allows for the
defended themselves by stating that the such arguments fare? Ask Julie
professionalism that we all still seek to
complex and elaborate “green book” Kirkbride, or Margaret Moran perhaps.
aspire to, surely.
of MPs’ allowances, and the
Parliamentary Fees Office itself, has
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