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BDA predicts a “challenging” future
NHS INFORMATION CENTRE
Dentists are facing “very challenging circumstances”, according to the BDA in Scot- land after the publication of two reports from the NHS Information Centre. The association has empha-
sised the need for dental care to be fully supported in light of the Dental Earnings and Expenses and Dental Working Hours reports. The BDA says the publications “paint a picture of a profession facing up to the challenge of caring for patients in Scotland by increasing its commitment to NHS care, coping with an increasing burden of non-clin- ical demands and struggling with increasing expenses, but, despite its efforts, seeing incomes falling”. The earnings and expenses
report shows that average taxable income for self-
Reports. Dentists see fall earnings
employed dentists working in general dental services in Scotland fell by 7.6 per cent from £79,300 in the 2009/10 fi nancial year to £73,300 in the following 12 months. In the same period, dental practice owners saw their average business expenses increase by more than £10,000. The working hours report
shows the percentage of time spent providing NHS care increased from 76.1 per cent in 2008/09 to 79.7 per cent in 2011/12. Over the same period, the percentage of the average dentist’s time spent on non- clinical activity rose from 13.9 per cent to 14.5 per cent. Dr Robert Donald, chair of
the BDA’s Scottish Dental Prac- tice Committee, said: “These reports underline the very
challenging circumstances confronting dentists in Scot- land and serve as a reminder to the Scottish Government of the importance of practi- tioners being fully supported as they care for patients. “Recent years have seen a number of constructive initia- tives, including Childsmile and the General Dental Practice Allowance, that the profession feels are making a positive difference in the fi ght against the oral health inequalities that persist in Scotland. Support for these initiatives must continue. “The Government must
consider these Information Centre reports carefully. Dentists recognise the pres- sures facing the public purse, but oral health is something that must be invested in.”
® The reports are available on the NHS Information Centre website.
David Jones
Two new specialists at Vermilion
Edinburgh-based referral clinic Vermilion has announced the appointment of two new members of their clinical team. Dr David Jones will introduce an endodontic service to the Corstorphine practice, while Dr Zannar Ossi joins the prostho- dontic team.
UK dentistry is highly rated BDA REPORT
Dental treatment in the UK is well-explained, good value for money and delivers high levels of patient satisfaction, according to a report by the British Dental Association (BDA). The GfK NOP survey, entitled ‘Public perceptions of choice in UK dental care’, was answered by 1,000 consumers and found that eight out of 10 patients who had seen their dentist in the last two years were ‘highly satisfi ed’ with their treatment. Of those who paid for their treatment, eight out of ten thought the explanation of fees and charges was ‘good’ or ‘very good’ and more than three quarters rated their treatment as ‘good’ or ‘very good’ value for money. Four out of fi ve reported they had visited their dentist during the previous 24 months, with about one in 15 saying they never visited
a dentist. Cost and fear of dentists were reasons cited separately but in equal measure by one in six of non-attendees. Dr Martin Fallowfi eld, chair of the BDA Principal Executive Committee, said: “The dental profession should be reassured by these fi ndings as a healthy dental market is one which is able to meet patients’ needs. “This said, we should not be compla- cent. There are still one in four people not attending the dentist regularly, and those fi gures are substantially higher among the more fi nancially pressed social groups, which impacts on preventive care and early detection of health risks and oral cancer.”
® To see the report, visit
http://bda.org/ dentists/policy-campaigns/research/ patient-care/
patientexperience.aspx
Dr Jones, who graduated from Glasgow in 2005, attained his MFDS in 2009 and completed his specialist training programme in endo- dontics at Guys and St Thomas’ Hospital in London. Dr Ossi graduated from Kharkov State Medical Univer- sity, Ukraine, with honours in 1998. In 2005, he was enrolled in the specialist training in prosthodontics at the Univer- sity of Edinburgh, completing the programme in 2007 with
M.Clin.Dent.(Prosthodontics). He developed an interest in dental implants, and decided to take up the subject as his PhD project. He is now in the fi nal stage of completing his thesis. He is an examiner for the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
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