Justice and NHS dental treatment - is injustice rife in NHS dentistry?

摘要

The Health and Social Care Act 2012 has caused a huge outcry from many healthcare groups and professional bodies. Despite the letter published in the BDJ from the British Society for the Study of Community Dentistry,1 there has been little in the way of comment from the dental profession. One suspects this is because NHS dentistry already operates in a way that other services will change to when the new Act comes into effect. The majority of those involved in primary care dentistry act as private contractors to the NHS, providing NHS dental services in businesses owned and operated by private individuals. Over the last 20 years or so dental body corporates have been taking an ever greater share of the dental market and a few of these have become major stakeholders in NHS dentistry. In a report at