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Dentists Flee U.K. Health System, Patients Pay More
2.7 million have gone without any treatment for almost two years. Under the NHS, every resident is eligible for care by a local dental practice. Since the government changed its contract with 21,000 NHS dentists in April 2006, one in 10 dentists stopped offering state-funded services, saying the contract required them to increase their workloads while limiting their earnings...The 2006 NHS contract was aimed at encouraging preventive measures. A parliamentary committee plans to probe the contract's impact in an inquiry next month. ``If a patient comes in and needs a lot of work, there's no additional reward for that,'' one dentist said. ``You get no gain for prevention. Who in their right mind is going to treat six crowns for the price of one?''All eagerly await Michael Moore's next documentary on this issue. Will it be called Gummo, Manufacturing Dentures, Drilling for Caries, Toothless White Men, Gingivitis and Me, or Dude, Where's My Teef? Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2008-01-16 |
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