Government

Government launches investigation into dental fines

The National Audit Office is launching an investigation into healthcare penalty charge notices in Spring this year. It will be…

Dentistry

Food menus to include calorie information in new Government plans

Restaurants, pubs, cafes and takeaways will all display calorie information for their food, under new Government plans. The Government has…

Oral health

First measure of industry progress on cutting sugar unveiled

Public Health England (PHE) has today published the first assessment of progress on the Government’s sugar reduction programme. As part of…

Oral health

Government urged to support local authorities in the fight against tooth decay

Following new calls from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) for oral health programmes in schools, the British…

Dentistry

Type 2 diabetes ‘timebomb’ prompts call on government to ‘take dentistry seriously’

England looks set to reach five million type 2 diabetes diagnoses by 2020 – five years sooner than previously thought…

Oral health

Labour calls for investigation into GDC’s spending

The National Audit Office should investigate the General Dental Council’s hefty legal and PR bills, the government has been told.…

Dentistry

Dental experts slam toothless, ‘watered down’ obesity plan

Leading dental associations, charities and organisations have united to voice their disappointment over the government’s Childhood obesity: a plan for…

Oral health

BDA claims trade union reform will undermine healthcare professionals

The British Dental Association (BDA) has criticised government plans it believes will undermine bargaining powers for healthcare professionals. The Government has…

Dentistry

Burt announced as new dentistry minister

MPs will come face-to-face with the dentistry minister again, after David Cameron dropped the experiment of giving the job to…

Dentistry

Unfolding the political landscape

For those of us who follow the comings and goings of the ‘Westminster Village’, the making of a new (all…

Dentistry

Nothing in government manifestos for dentistry

Dentistry is not mentioned once in any of the general election manifestos of the big three Westminster parties. In 2010,…

Dentistry

The Government’s outlook for dentistry

I read Kevin Lewis’ blog last week on the Dentistry website about the permutations of the Government in the event…

Dentistry

Parliament to debate on the performance of the GDC

MPs are set to debate the performance of the General Dental Council (GDC), the regulator for dentists and dental care…

Dentistry

How the Autumn Statement will affect dentists

The chancellor, George Osborne, delivered the last Autumn Statement of this parliament today. Jon Drysdale highlights items of interest to…

Dentistry

Pulling out rotten teeth from children runs up an annual £30m bill for the taxpayer

It cost the NHS £3.1m to carry out ‘minor extractions’ from under-18s, over the 2012-13 financial year, and a further…

Dentistry