With the cost of dentistry in the UK rising and the growing popularity of dental tourism, Matthew Reeves, Corporate Channel Manager from Denplan, explains the place for dental benefit schemes and how they continue to evolve
Corporate wellbeing benefit schemes have been around for the best part of two decades in the UK. However, there has been a huge increase in the number of companies offering dental as part of that package in the last few years. This, interestingly, has been largely driven forward by the issues arising from the NHS. So what happened to make company schemes so necessary? In 2006, the Government introduced a new contract for NHS dentists around the country. This contract was based on each dentist achieving a specified amount UDAs (Units of Dental Activity). Simply speaking, this meant that...
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