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“The system is just not operable,” says dentist as millions struggle to get NHS dentist appointments
National World - LocalTV
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16/07/2024
Why are so many dentists stepping away from the profession or handing back their NHS contracts?
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A lot of patients, we're seeing nearly one in five operating themselves at home doing
00:06
DIY dentistry and that's where the searches are coming in, where people are going online
00:10
looking for home remedies and help and assistance at home and that's really worrying for us.
00:15
It's getting incredibly difficult for a patient to access a dental clinic in this current
00:20
climate.
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How has the availability and accessibility of NHS dental care changed over the last decade
00:26
and what impact do you think that's had on public dental health here in the UK?
00:30
The cost of dentistry has been rising, we saw last year in 2023 I think an 8.5% increase
00:36
in NHS dental fees, that was higher than inflation, so many patients are being priced out and
00:41
then other dentists are handing back NHS contracts.
00:44
The system is just not operable for many of them and what that means is many patients
00:48
when they visit their local clinic are finding either the dentist has left or the NHS contracts
00:52
have been handed back and we're seeing that on a mass kind of scale, a mass exodus of
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dentists leaving the system.
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Searches for NHS dentists reached their highest level in January of this year.
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What steps do you think need to be taken to help improve the availability and accessibility
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of NHS dental services for everyone?
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I think the government needs to recognise the system that the NHS dentistry is operating
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within.
01:15
It doesn't need a patchwork kind of approach, it actually needs a reform of the contract
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system, how dentists treat patients, how they're enumerated, how patients pay for treatment.
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A lot of it is around the financial aspects but also in terms of the geography as well.
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We're seeing large parts of the country that we call dental deserts where patients are
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having to travel on average nearly 40 miles to see a dentist and we think digital should
01:37
play a large part in that too.
01:39
We think technology, dentistry should be brought into the 21st century and technology needs
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to be incorporated into that dental clinic.
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Only then do we feel that patients will get the best experience.
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What we're encouraging the government to do is look at the policy, look at the reforming
01:53
the actual aspect of dentistry and equipping dentists better to treat their patient base.
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