NHS dentists-now like a needle in a haystack.

SandLake

Jaime-V, I think I know the dentist you are referring to and I have been told that you can also join something like HSA and use that to pay the dentists bills although it wasn't made clear to me and I have now joined another (NHS) practice.

I'm happy if they do go private as long as I get to use some scheme where the treatment will be covered.

anewman

There's all kinds of Dentist and NHS related petitions here http://search.petitions.pm.gov.uk/kbroker/number10/petitions/search.lsim?qt=dentist&go=Go&sr=0&nh=10&cs=&sc=number10&oq=dent&sb=0&ha=1157&mt=0

The thing that annoys me really is the idea of the NHS is that it has a duty of care to the citizens. The Government changes the terms of contracts, so that the NHS dentists feel they can't agree to them. Even though I admit I don't know all the finer details, part of me is annoyed with the dentists, as surely the NHS isn't going to give you the equivalent of only £5 an hour. I am sure under the NHS dentists would still be reasonably well off, certainly more than minimum wage anyway. Although I am mostly annoyed with the Government for not getting off their ar**s and sorting it all out, as after all it's their problem and it's the Government who is accountable to it's citizens, not the dentists.

How about we make all the hospitals private and make them all contracted out like the dentists? The same mess would happen there eventually, and while you lay dying on a bed they'll be there apologising for not giving you life saving surgery because you can't afford to pay the £4000 operation costs, and then duly slap you with a £200 mortuary charge getting you to enter your pin on the portable chip and pin before you croak it.

IvanOpinion

All I can say is thank goodness a couple of my mates are dentists ... they treat me free and I fix their computers for free ... I much prefer the barter system

ivan