With the changes to NHS dental treatment now firmly in place, Pam Whelan explains how this is having a positive effect on private dental insurance plans.
NHS dentists are by all accounts "endangered species" and certainly, recent news headlines would have you believe, nigh on extinct. In the main, it would appear that the new NHS contracts issued in 2006 "present a significant business risk" for dentists in comparison to working privately according to Derek Watson, chief executive officer of the Dental Practitioners' Association (DPA). The impact is evident in a recent survey by the Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB), which revealed that 7.4 million people have been unable to access an NHS dentist in the last 18 months, citing "lack of access" a...
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