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More Details of 2026 Contract Changes Emerge More details have been released by NHS England about the forthcoming NHS dental contract changes for April 1st 2026.

More Details of 2026 Contract Changes Emerge

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15.01.2026 18:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Small World of Dentistry - Simplified Registration and Pension Concerns Two recent stories are likely to chime with UK dental teams, although they come from outside the UK.

The Small World of Dentistry - Simplified Registration and Pension Concerns

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15.01.2026 10:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Small World of Dentistry - Simplified Registration and Pension Concerns Two recent stories are likely to chime with UK dental teams, although they come from outside the UK.

The Small World of Dentistry - Simplified Registration and Pension Concerns

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15.01.2026 10:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Tooth and Consequences The temptation to make a dental pun proved too much for City of London Police when it came to reporting the results of one of their recent investigations.

Tooth and Consequences - how insurance fraud put colleagues in jail . . .

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13.01.2026 11:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Better Oral Health for a Longer Life Fresh evidence to support this message has come in the form of two separate large-scale studies by researchers at Osaka Metropolitan University and the Institute of Science Tokyo, which concluded that...

Better Oral Health for a Longer Life

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12.01.2026 10:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Will AI Render Traditional Dentistry Obsolete? As the profession, training establishments and the NHS grapple with workforce planning, they may merely need to fill a short gap before the transition to a vastly different way of delivering dental ca...

Will AI Render Traditional Dentistry Obsolete?

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09.01.2026 10:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Rush to Retire Adds to Workforce Woes Two recent stories have provided a reminder that the ‘leaky bucket meme remains a remarkably accurate representation of the UKs approach to dental workforce planning.

Rush to Retire Adds to Workforce Woes

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06.01.2026 09:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Press and Healthwatch Digest Contract Reforms

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23.12.2025 09:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

GDC Reported to Wes Streeting – By Their Regulator There is one area where the GDC can be relied upon by registrants and the public.

GDC Reported to Wes Streeting – By Their Own Regulator

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22.12.2025 09:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Nation’s Oral Health is Making Progress – Backwards TheNational Centre for Social Research(NatCen) founded in 1969, is the largest independent and not-for-profit social research organisation in the UK.

The Nation’s Oral Health is Making Progress – Backwards

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19.12.2025 10:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Lukewarm Response to Vague NHS Contract Proposals It is a safe bet that Minister for Care Stephen Kinnock does not lay awake at night worrying what GDPs will make of the reforms to the NHS dental contract.

Lukewarm Response to Vague NHS Contract Proposals

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17.12.2025 08:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Major NHS Dental Contract Changes Announced

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16.12.2025 08:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

GDC “Completely Transparent” About ORE Troubles The Financial Times wrote about the UK dental scene in the summer of 2025 with a glowing story about the University of Suffolk CIC.

GDC “Completely Transparent” About ORE Troubles

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15.12.2025 09:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Conservative Policy Makers Turn to Dentistry As His Majesty‘s Opposition in the House of Commons begin to emerge from their post-election doldrums, one sign of renewed confidence is that the Conservatives have begun to talk about dentistry.

Conservative Policy Makers Turn to Dentistry

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12.12.2025 10:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Quieter Handpieces to Reduce Patient Anxiety? Dental anxiety remains a major barrier to routine attendance and preventive care, with auditory triggers—particularly the characteristic high-frequency noise of the high-speed handpiece—playing a sign...

Quieter Handpieces to Reduce Patient Anxiety?

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10.12.2025 20:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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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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

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