Continued Improvement For NHS Dentistry, UK
Main Category: DentistryArticle Date: 14 Jan 2007 - 18:00 PDT
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The amount of dental activity commissioned by the NHS is continuing to rise, according to new statistics released today.
Significantly, the figures also show that since the new dental contract was introduced in April, more services have been recommissioned than were lost in rejected contracts.
Health Minister Rosie Winterton said:
"These latest figures show that NHS dentistry is expanding, with Primary Care Trusts commissioning more activity than last year. The dental reforms are for the first time allowing Trusts to build sustainable local dental services, rather than the piecemeal services we had before."
The dental statistics can be found on the Department of Health website:
http://www.performance.doh.gov.uk/dental_contracts
Many dentists in the UK would say this information is misleading. Since April 2006 the system has been designed to discourage treatment rather than encourage it. Instead of paying per filling, the government is paying per course of treatment. Each course of treatment can have as little as one filling in it. Therefore the amount of dentistry courses 'commissioned' has no bearing on the amount of dentistry carried out on the NHS, which is in fact going down.
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