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The Tarnished Golden Hello Has Flopped The £20000 ‘Golden Hello scheme was set up to provide an appealing incentive that would encourage dentists to go and work in some of the dental deserts where NHS care was not available.

The Tarnished Golden Hello Has Flopped

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09.12.2025 12:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Urgent Care Incentives: NHSE Blink First Pre 2006, fee per item NHS dentistry was often described as a game of snakes and ladders which, in theory, balanced out.Despite this, dentists were accused of gaming the system by focussing on alleged...

Urgent Care Incentives: NHSE Blink First

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08.12.2025 09:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

New GDC Chair’s vision emerges What is important to Dr Helen Phillips, the new GDC Chair who succeeded Lord Toby Harris on October 1st 2025?

New GDC Chair’s Vision Emerges

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05.12.2025 09:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Pharmacists and GP’s View Dental Style Departure from NHS Amongst the various professions delivering healthcare, dentists and in particular GDPs, have been heading to the NHS exit door in large numbers.

Pharmacists and GP’s View Dental Style Departure from NHS

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02.12.2025 08:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Smoking Gun in Suffolk Dental Shambles There is good news and not so good news about the University of Suffolk University Community Interest Company Dental (CIC).

The Smoking Gun in Suffolk Dental Shambles

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01.12.2025 10:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Odd Allies Agree - Rachel Reeves Does Not Understand What do a group of Private Dentists and a pressure group founded by Communist Party of Britain members have in common?

Odd Allies Agree - Rachel Reeves Does Not Understand

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-- #dentalpolitics #dentistry #news #healthcare #GDPUK

28.11.2025 17:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What Happens on WhatsApp May Not Stay on WhatsApp The late lamented Kevin Lewis used to tell the story of his advice to a disgruntled dentist who wanted to send a letter to a particularly trying patient, telling them just what he thought of them.

What Happens on WhatsApp May Not Stay on WhatsApp

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26.11.2025 10:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Schein Set Out to Reassure Exact Users Like most emerging markets, dental software initially saw a plethora of small companies competing with a wide range of products.

Schein Set Out to Reassure Exact Users

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25.11.2025 08:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Time Up at Suffolk for Former CDO It appeared to have gone quiet in Ipswich at the project led by former CDO, Sara Hurley.

Time Is Up at Suffolk for Former CDO Hurley

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24.11.2025 10:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sunderland Uni: Trying to Fill the Leaky Bucket Another University has set out its ambitions to have a dental school.

Sunderland Uni: Trying to Fill the Leaky Bucket

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19.11.2025 09:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

GDC Will Help Refugees Join the Register The GDC has announced a new alternative evidence policy to support refugee and displaced dental professionals seeking to join the register.

GDC Will Help Refugees Join the Register

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18.11.2025 09:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Police Called to Practice after AI Disagreement Successful dental treatment usually requires high levels of patient compliance, but the collapse of one patient dentist relationship, may flag a new challenge for dental teams.As reported in The Mail,...

Police Called to Practice after AI Disagreement

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17.11.2025 10:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

NHS Website is “a work of fiction” According to BBC The BBC seems to be on a roll when it comes to giving a wider airing to dental stories that the profession are familiar with, but which are unknown to the general public.

NHS Website is “a work of fiction” According to BBC

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14.11.2025 10:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Financial Greenhouse – how to grow your practice finances At a panel discussion chaired by Practice Plan Director, Nigel Jones, experts Mike Blenkharn of accountants UNW, Wesleyan Financial Services Specialist Financial Adviser, Magdelena Harding, and dentis...

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13.11.2025 17:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Amalgam's Last Goodbye Approaches Mark Twain may have said that reports of his death were grossly exaggerated, and dental amalgam too seems to have survived long after its predicted demise.

Amalgam's Last Goodbye Approaches

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13.11.2025 08:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Paying by Cash, Card or GoFundMe? With the dental access crisis continuing, and many dentists reducing their NHS hours, more of the public are being faced with a choice of private care, or no care.Social media and online platforms hav...

Paying by Cash, Card or GoFundMe?

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11.11.2025 11:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Growing Enamel Breakthrough, Alternative to SDF could be ZTD

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10.11.2025 10:57 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

GDC and the ARF: Further Insights The recent announcement by the GDC of a 12.4% rise in the Annual Registration Fee (ARF) has understandably been poorly received by registrants, or at least those aware of the increase.

GDC and the ARF: Further Insights

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06.11.2025 10:02 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Handing Back Contracts - not only Britain It is easy to see the problems of NHS dental care as a particularly British phenomenon.

Handing Back Contracts - not only Britain

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05.11.2025 10:52 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Here Comes the Robot Dental Receptionist The march of the robots into dentistry continues. In early 2022 GDPUK reported on a robotic implant assistant being used in Los Angeles, and two years later we reported the first crown preparation on ...

Here Comes the Robot Dental Receptionist

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04.11.2025 10:01 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

GDC ARF to Rise by 12.5% for 2026 The General Dental Council (GDC) has confirmed that the Annual Retention Fee (ARF) for 2026 will rise to £698 for dentists and £108 for dental care professionals (DCPs), as part of the regulator‘s new...

GDC ARF to Rise by 12.5% for 2026

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03.11.2025 11:11 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

BBC not GDC Protects Patients From Illegal Dentistry At one time the GDC explained their purpose in eight words: Protecting the public and regulating the dental profession.

BBC (not GDC!) Protects Patients From Illegal Dentistry

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30.10.2025 09:52 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

BBC not GDC Protects Patients From Illegal Dentistry At one time the GDC explained their purpose in eight words: Protecting the public and regulating the dental profession.

BBC (not GDC!) Protects Patients From Illegal Dentistry

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30.10.2025 09:45 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Linking Oral Disease Burden and Stroke Risk: New Evidence A growing body of research continues to underscore the relationship between oral health and systemic disease.

Linking Oral Disease Burden and Stroke Risk: New Evidence

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29.10.2025 14:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

BUPA Opt to “Feel at Ease”

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28.10.2025 11:03 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Another One Bites the Dust at CQC

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23.10.2025 13:19 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Research Urges Caution on use of AI Dental Record Keeping A newly published study into AI speech tools in dentistry has determined that they could revolutionise dental record-keeping, but added that caution is needed.

Research Urges Caution on use of AI Dental Record Keeping

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23.10.2025 08:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Partnerships: Reeves To Go on Tax Hunt Chancellor Rachel Reeves is expected to announce a new £2 billion tax measure targeting high-earning professionals, including those operating through limited liability partnerships (LLPs).

Partnerships: Reeves To Go on Tax Hunt

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22.10.2025 08:53 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Fossil 'Toothpick Grooves' may not be from Cleaning The debate around the aetiology of abfraction cavities may not be new, but it can now be argued with evidence going back to Neanderthal times.

Fossil 'Toothpick Grooves' may not be from Cleaning

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20.10.2025 11:13 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Proposed Sugar Levy Changes Will Ensure Reformulation of Soft Drinks The Treasury is consulting on plans to tighten the Soft Drinks Industry Levy by lowering the starting threshold from 5g to 4g of sugar per 100ml — a move that could significantly affect major brands s...

Proposed Sugar Levy Changes Will Ensure Reformulation of Soft Drinks

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16.10.2025 09:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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