Exclusive: Surgeries having to ‘operate like a charity’ and subsidise NHS work to tune of £332m a year, says BDAA growing “exodus” of dentists willing to provide care on the NHS threatens to exacerbate the crisis in patients’ access to treatment, the profession’s leaders have warned.Dentists are increasingly stopping doing NHS-funded work because their fees for many procedures do not even cover the costs involved, according to the British Dental Association (BDA). Continue reading…
Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/feb/13/england-dentists-nhs-exodus-fees
Author : Denis Campbell Health policy editor
Publish date : 2025-02-13 09:10:00
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English dentists ‘walking away’ from NHS work as fees don’t even cover costs
