India is known to have more dental practices than anywhere else in the world. However this hasn’t stopped the Government from developing dental health further. In short, it wants to create more dentist jobs. Speaking with local Indian reporters, Ghulam Nabi Azad who is India’s health and welfare minister said: India is number one in […]
Flagging dentistry in the NHS got a boost recently with a new practice opening, setting up in Chapelgate in Retford. The new practice is on the site of a previous doctor’s surgery. The new practice is the brain child of three award-winning dentists who were winners of the Yorkshire and Humberside Employer of the Year […]
Dental patients have been advised to shop around for the best local dentist and compare dentists, following the launch of a new online area, which allows patients to review their dentist and leave comments about their experience at a dental practice. The new online area on the NHS website enables patients to read comments about […]
New government figures have revealed that children living in poor areas of Scotland are twice as likely to suffer from tooth decay as children living in more affluent areas. The figures show an improvement in national standards of oral health, with 64 percent of P-1 age schoolchildren showing no signs of decay, the highest figure […]
There are plans to substitute the disliked dental contract, introduced in 2006 by the Labour government, with a new one rewarding the quality of the treatment, not the number of treatments carried out. The existing contract, which dentists have complained about since its launch, saw dentists paid according to their ability to meet individual targets. […]
A report by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) has found that children in poorer families are still having difficulties in accessing dental care. Families on Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) are still finding it difficult to get appointments with local dental professionals, despite promises that action would be taken to remedy […]