Your eye teeth
Posted by Cptn
One of the team up here in the Enamel Towers of the PRSD has been having some dental trouble (our sympathies are extended) - but that’s nothing to what’s going on with the NHS dental system.
The figures (if you’re as jaundiced as us) suggest a privatisation by stealth approach to dental health - 5,212 were surveyed, and 81 per cent of the private patients said they left the NHS because their dentists stopped treating NHS patients or because they couldn’t find an NHS dentists. And over half of those not using an NHS dentist said it was because there wasn’t one near where they live.
A nerve-tingling six per cent said they do it themselves. Dentists too were surveyed, and their answers weren’t good either: more than half aren’t accepting any more NHS patients; nearly 60 per cent believe the quality of care has got worse; and over two-thirds were aware of patients declining treatment because of cost.
But the good news is that of the NHS patients surveyed 94 per cent were happy with the treatment. That’s it then - let’s extract it from the health service provision.
If you liked this story, you could buy us a coffee --------------------------------------------------------------------October 17th, 2007
