NHS Dental costs - have I been charged correctly?

welshdent

Annonay wrote: »

You can only work with the information you are given. You can ask for clarity if necessary.

To think anything else of a poster is being judgemental in my opinion.

We are in a free society and thus entitled to an opinion. Mine differs from yours.

welshdent

welshdent wrote: »

What you are describing is fraud. However it may well be a bank account in his name however it is more likely to be the business account that the pct use for their deposits. On that form I linked you to it shows a box for patient charge taken. We fill that in (as you know it can only be one of 3 cash values) and they deduct that value from the overall value. The dentist is not paid like it appears you think they are. There is no way legally that they can gain more money by charging you for something you could potentially have had for free. As I said the only people that benefit are the pcts as it is less money they have to shell out from their allocate budgets.

We get those forms in ASAP by the way because if we don't we are not paid. So turn around on the paper work may be a week or so. If your practice is computerised it could be hours or days

Annonay

welshdent wrote: »

We are in a free society and thus entitled to an opinion. Mine differs from yours.

OK, if thats the case here goes.

You know what really scares the hell out of me?

The thought that someone who claims to be a dentist and claims to have been giving treatment today, yet miraculously has been posting on here almost non-stop since about 3.30 this afternoon ... and it's now getting on for 2.30 in the morning - almost 11 hours!!!.

Well I would hate to be your 9.00am patient, that's for sure. :eek:

welshdent

Half day today and day off tomorrow :-)

welshdent

I have also managed to go to the gym, go out for dinner and listen to an audiobook. Multi talented.

brook2jack

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Well in all the dental surgeries I have been to, all the dentists there can access any of the patients notes, x-rays, etc.

You don't think any dentist remembers what they saw when they examined a patient possibly 2 weeks earlier do you?
(It can easily be 2 weeks between a check up and an appointment for subsequent treatment)

What would happen if the dentist was run over by a bus following a check up (and no other treatment needed).
Do you think the patient would be called back in to extract another £17.50 whilst another dentist does the check up?
.[/QUOTE]

As we keep saying to you dentists are independent of each other even if they work in the same building , even if the cheques are paid to the surgery or owner of the practice.

This works in two ways financial and clinical. Give three dentists one patient and you will get four treatment plans all equally valid.

No dentist would ever work to another's treatment plan because there may be bits they disagree with but they are legally liable for if anything goes wrong and it would be indefensible doing someone else's treatment plan without yourself having assessed the situation.

So yes any dentist who isn't your own will want to assess things themselves.

Fork86

I have qualified within the last few years and work in one of the largest NHS dental practices in London, possibly the UK. Our previous principle dentist, who only just sold his practice to one of my colleagues, is quite well versed in the current NHS contract and is sitting on the board at the DoH, who will be changing the contract in the next few years.

I can tell you now you probably weren't offered a continuation of treatment because an urgent course of treatment was provided directly after your previous course of treatment. You cannot claim for a continuation of treatment within 2 months from the PCT if the previous course of treatment is a band 4/band 1 urgent.

Now there are some dental practices who will probably have seen that you had a filling done recently and would have just opened up a new band 2 treatment under a continuation straight away, and earnt less money doing so like we have been instructed to do at our practice. But it is not incorrect to do what your practice did, and certainly the majority of practices do this.