Well I've got the details of my final appeal back and I'm sorry to say that its been rejected... It seems that the Primary Care Trust are able to ask us to complete double the amount of dental work for the same income. I suppose that there was a moment of epiphany now that I realise that rather than being about caring for the patient the health service (at least in dentistry) is about re-electing a Labour government. As I see it, it's a win win contract for them. If we are able to meet our increased targets then they can say 'look how much more dentistry is being done on the NHS' and if we refuse and abandon the NHS then the plan is to have larger centers staffed with lower paid foreign dentists and they can say 'look at the new Practices we've opened'.
No word though for the patient that has to travel farther to see a dentist. No word for the patient that sees a different dentist each time they go to one of these larger poly clinics. No incentive for their dentist to properly sort out the dental problems that they have - just quick and cheap treatment to get them out of the surgery. It seems to me that NHS dentistry will become a patients quickest route to ill fitting dentures. Still the politicians and bureaucrats aren't bothered. They can afford to go Private....
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