Ben Bradshaw MP, NuLabour gobshite yesterdayThere's a hole in my tooth.
Do you promise to tell the tooth, the whole tooth and nothing but the tooth?
Well if you are a British NHS dental patient you might very well not be pulling out your hair but your teeth in agony or frustration.
Dentistry is one of several gaping holes in the government's record. People feel that value for money has disappeared in to a hole bigger even than the caries in Ben Bradshaw's brain. For ill informed ministerial twaddle this statement, "If people are in pain or need urgent treatment, they should go either to their GP or to their primary care trust and demand what is now their right" is about as sensible as Bottler Brown not calling an election because he would have won it.
Crippen and Rant have both covered NHS dentistry before. We have pointed to the gaps in provision, which are almost as big as the huge empty synapses between the neurones in Ben Bradshaw's brain.
Just for the record. Dr Rant is a general practitioner of MEDICINE.
He is not an ersatz dentist. He is not nearly a dentist, or a good substitute for a dentist.
Dr Rant is a general medical practitioner- and good at what he does.
He does not do DENTISTRY.
Dentists are better at dentistry than he is. Dentists are much, much better at dentistry than he is.
And 3Ps (paracetamol, penicillin, piss off) is not good treatment for dental problems.
So Mr Bradshaw, please go back to your ministerial hell hole, stay there, and stop making stupid statements that will add to my work, get patients to the wrong place at the wrong time, bugger up my access targets generally do nothing fuck all to get any more dentists working for your clapped out NHS organisation.
The American media is loving stories of our "comprehensive socialised medicine" failing to provide universal cover.
However their insurers are far from fully comprehensive.........
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Perhaps we could send all the dental patients down to his honourable MP's surgery?
He now has the Dentistry for Dummies - that should be adequate shouldn't it?
I believe that is the complete solution to the current problem. Let the MPs treat the dental problems.
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I'm sick and tired of seeing patients with dental complaints and no NHS dentist. I have one dentist in the area who is taking on NHS patients, I should be on commission for the amount od patients I send their way
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Dental Nurse Practitioners in the Polyclinic - sorted. ;)
When I was kid, regular deantal inspections with an NHS dentist were the norm.
This week our health visitor said she could arrange a visit from the community dental team for our daughter (apparently Kezia has a "right" to this), warning us that they are not a substitute for a non-existent NHS dentist - who are we to refuse ?
But are dental nurse practitioners having to fill in for non-existent NHS dentists?
Appears so ...
Apparently Scotland is introducing free school dentists for all
Paid for by the tax payers of South East England as usual
If I could find the evil cunts who were my school dentists when I was about 6 I'd be happy to do the time to see them floating in their own blood, lets hope the modern Scottish version is a somewhat better standard
School dentists or "community dentist teams"? Kezia's nursery got a visit from the community dental team last week and she came home proudly holding a toothbrush and a tube of Colgate.
Good on NHS Scotland if what you say is indeed true.
on the contrary, what a total and utter waste of public money
we do not need fucking nhs dentists, what we need is the money back from our taxes which is supposed to pay for them
Great article Dr. Rant. Typical of this government to dump the problem on G.P.'s, after screwing up what little was working in NHS dentistry with the new contract.
Conveniently they ignore the fact that the new contract drove many dentists, like myself, out of the NHS altogether.
Many of us used to see children and exempt adults on an NHS basis - they had the greatest need for our services and the lowest ability to pay - so we divided our time between private and NHS practice in this way. Arranging this like this, practices like mine could afford to provide dental care to a standard that we felt it should be provided, to the most people.
The new contract though, outlawed such a distinction as it was deemed "unfair". Effectively you had to decide if you were going to be all-in NHS or all-out and private. With the removal of registration under the NHS (yes it has actually gone), you also no longer knew who you were and were not looking after. So now no-one can obtain dental care via the NHS at mixed NHS / private practices. Instead they have to squeeze in at oversubscribed, NHS-only practices that can't cope. The continuity of their care has been broken and they can no longer see the dentist they always used to, who they know and trust, and who knows them and their dental care history. It's not ideal for the patients but at least everyone has the same lack of access. So it's fair to everyone.
Brilliant joined-up thinking yet again that hurts patients and dentists alike. So to avoid the political flak, the idiot Bradshaw tries to dump the problem on the poor G.P.'s. You have my sympathy.
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