UK - Admit it: dental scheme is rotten
Admit it: dental scheme is rotten
Sue Carroll 19/08/2008
The "new" dental contract, widely predicted to fail because it was never even piloted, has resulted in thousands of children starting school with bad teeth.
Ten years ago this would be rare. Dentists giving parents private care could treat their offspring on the NHS. This deal is now called a special contract which few primary care trusts are prepared to provide.
So it's all or nothing. And since few dentists will take on new NHS patients, nothing means a quarter of five-year-olds in Britain now have rotten or missing teeth.
The system is in terminal decay. But from health minister Ann Keen just more denials. Too much sugar in diets, too little fluoride in the water. Blah, Blah.
It's time for the government to bite the bullet and admit this ill-considered, hasty and messy contract has been a catastrophic mistake.
Sue Carroll 19/08/2008
The "new" dental contract, widely predicted to fail because it was never even piloted, has resulted in thousands of children starting school with bad teeth.
Ten years ago this would be rare. Dentists giving parents private care could treat their offspring on the NHS. This deal is now called a special contract which few primary care trusts are prepared to provide.
So it's all or nothing. And since few dentists will take on new NHS patients, nothing means a quarter of five-year-olds in Britain now have rotten or missing teeth.
The system is in terminal decay. But from health minister Ann Keen just more denials. Too much sugar in diets, too little fluoride in the water. Blah, Blah.
It's time for the government to bite the bullet and admit this ill-considered, hasty and messy contract has been a catastrophic mistake.
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