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  1. News Article
    Children needing a general anaesthetic for tooth extraction are waiting nearly three years in a hidden crisis that is not recorded on national waiting lists. A national report on hospital dentistry found there were more children on locally held waiting lists for assessment than on the nationally reported waiting list – 27,285 compared to 22,474. Some of the longest waits are thought to be in Kent and Medway, where 200 children are waiting for dental extractions – many of them with autism or learning disabilities. The longest wait is 143 weeks — about two years and nine months. The issue is going under the radar because there is a lack of a consistent dataset for community dental services, which are responsible for dentistry for children with special care needs, such as physical or learning disabilities. Children with additional needs often can’t have teeth extracted under a local anaesthetic and instead need to be admitted to a hospital with a paediatric intensive care unit where they can have a general anaesthetic. Being on a locally held waiting list – typically when a community dental service is not part of an acute trust – can mean commissioners are unaware of the scale of children waiting. Read full story (paywalled) Source: HSJ, 6 May 2025
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    It is important that dentistry looks beyond technical/clinical skills as a marker of success and that non-technical skills have equal, if not additional credibility. This means capitalising on psychological safety, communication, leadership, teamwork, situation awareness, decision-making, and cooperation.  Human Factors in Dentistry are considered through the lens of members of the dental and oral health teams being able to work safely and to the best of their ability, ensuring that safe treatments and care are provided. Find out more on Human Factors in Dentistry website.
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    Game-based learning has become increasingly popular in medical education. This study used an originally designed board game to train dental and dental hygiene students in patient safety, investigating the educational value of game-based learning. It found that the board game effectively improved knowledge and awareness of patient safety among dental and dental hygiene students.
  4. News Article
    Almost three thousand children had tooth decay so severe they attended A&E last year, new data reveals. MPs have called for an end to the “national scandal” facing NHS dental care, as new figures reveal that in some areas of the country, A&E attendances for tooth decay have risen 40-fold since 2019. Figures obtained by the Liberal Democrat Party under the Freedom of Information Act reveal 2,800 children attended A&E due to tooth decay issues last year – up by a fifth since 2019 but slightly down on 2023. Overall, there were 16,100 A&E attendances over tooth decay in 2024, with areas such as Northwest Anglia NHS Trust seeing cases increase from just 6 in 2019 to 238. The figures come after a report this month from the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said the national dental plan set out by the former government had “comprehensively failed”. The PAC’s report said the current national contract for dentists “remains unfit for purpose”, with current arrangements only sufficient for about half of England’s population to see an NHS dentist over two years. The Liberal Democrats’ health and social care spokesperson Helen Morgan said: "It is a national scandal that children are ending up in A&E in agony because they can’t get a dentist appointment. “Parents are being forced to watch their little ones cry through the night, all because the NHS dental system has been left to rot. We’re now seeing vast swathes of the country being turned into dental deserts, with no sign of things getting better. “This almost medieval situation of people pulling their own teeth out with pliers as they can’t get an appointment must end. That must start with a complete overhaul of the dental contract to boost the numbers of dentists and appointments and finally rid this country of dental deserts.” Read full story Source: The Independent, 14 April 2025
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    An integrated care board in the East of England is working to integrate general practice and dental care records, and exploring shared sites for the two primary care services. Suffolk and North East Essex ICB is exploring how to “bring primary care services together”, according to recent board papers. Ed Garratt, its chief executive, said dental practices first began to collaborate through the ICB’s dental priority access and stabilisation scheme, which saw them offer 15,000 urgent appointments. “We’re now thinking about how to create networks of dental practices that could work together with our general practice networks,” he told HSJ. He added that the ICB was also pursuing integrating the summary care record – a patient record held by GPs – so it could be shared with dentists. Mr Garratt said having GPs and dentists working at the same hub sites was likely to be “the ultimate end stage” for this work. He said the moves were designed to improve communication and holistic care across dental and other health. “Often, dentists and GPs might share the same patient, but they would never communicate about that patient. So you can have more holistic care potentially if people were working closer together,” he said. Read full story (paywalled) Source: HSJ, 10 April 2025 Further reading on the hub: The challenges of navigating the healthcare system
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    The official plan to increase access to NHS dental services in England has been a “complete failure”, and some of the government’s initiatives have worsened the crisis, a damning report warns. Millions of patients continue to be denied dental care, forcing them to pay for private treatment, build up mountains of credit card debt, or even worse perform dangerous DIY dentistry on their own teeth, the research by MPs found. Without immediate and significant changes to fix the “broken” system, there would be no future for population-wide access to NHS dentistry, the report by the public accounts committee (PAC) said. “This country is now years deep in an avalanche of harrowing stories of the impact of dentistry’s system failure,” said Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, the chair of the committee. “It is utterly disgraceful that, in the 21st century, some Britons have been forced to remove their own teeth.” He added: “Last year’s dental recovery plan was supposed to address these problems, something our report has found it has signally failed to do. Almost unbelievably, the government’s initiatives appear to have actually resulted in worsening the picture, with fewer new patients seen since the plan’s introduction.” Read full story Source: The Guardian, 4 April 2025
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    Public satisfaction with the NHS is at a record low and dissatisfaction is at its highest, with the deepest discontent about A&E, GP and dental care. Just 21% of adults in Britain are satisfied with how the health service runs, down from 24% a year before, while 59% are dissatisfied, up from 52%, the latest annual survey of patients found. Satisfaction has fallen dramatically from the 70% recorded in 2010, the year the last Labour government left office, and the 60% found in 2019, the year before the Covid-19 pandemic. Mark Dayan, a policy analyst at the Nuffield Trust thinktank, which analysed the data alongside the King’s Fund, said the years since 2019 have seen “a startling collapse in NHS satisfaction. “It is by far the most dramatic loss of confidence in how the NHS runs that we have seen in 40 years of this survey.” A&E is the NHS service the public is least happy about. Satisfaction fell from 31% in 2023 to just 19% last year – the lowest proportion in the 41 years the British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey of the views of patients in England, Scotland and Wales has been carried out. Satisfaction with NHS dentistry has collapsed, too, from 60% as recently as 2019 to just 20% last year. More people (55%) are dissatisfied with dental care than with any other service. Similarly, fewer than a third (31%) of adults are satisfied with GP services. “The latest results lay bare the extent of the problems faced by the NHS and the size of the challenge for the government”, said Dan Wellings, a senior fellow at the King’s Fund. “For too many people, the NHS has become too difficult to access. How can you be satisfied with a service you can’t get into?” Read full story Source: The Guardian, 2 April 2025
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    The Nuffield Trust and The King’s Fund join forces each year to analyse and present findings from the gold-standard survey of public attitudes and opinions towards the NHS and social care, as surveyed by NatCen. The 2024 survey results show that the British public are deeply unhappy with the way the NHS runs – just 1 in 5 people said they were satisfied. Key findings Satisfaction with the NHS In 2024, just one in five British adults (21%) were ‘very’ or ‘quite’ satisfied with the way in which the NHS runs. This is the lowest level of satisfaction recorded since the survey began in 1983 and shows a steep decline of 39 percentage points since 2019. Only 2% of respondents were ‘very’ satisfied with the NHS, down from 4% in 2023. The percentage of people who were ‘very’ or ‘quite’ dissatisfied with the NHS rose to 59% in 2024, from 52% in 2023. This represents a statistically significant 7-percentage-point increase from the year before, which already had the highest dissatisfaction seen in 40 years of the British Social Attitudes survey. A higher proportion of people in Wales (72%) were dissatisfied with the NHS compared to the survey average and compared to people in England (59%). Supporters of the Reform party were less likely to be satisfied (13%) than the survey average and this was significant after controlling for other variables like age and income. There is a divide between generations, with satisfaction lower and falling in younger age groups. While the proportion of people who were satisfied rose slightly for those aged 65 and over, from 25% to 27%, among those under 65 it fell significantly, from 24% to 19%. Satisfaction with social care In 2024, only 13% of respondents said they were ‘very’ or ‘quite’ satisfied with social care (the same figure as 2023). 53% of respondents were ‘very’ or ‘quite’ dissatisfied. Respondents in Wales (69%) were again significantly more likely to be dissatisfied than the survey average. Satisfaction with different NHS services Public satisfaction with A&E services has fallen sharply, from 31% to just 19%, and dissatisfaction has risen from 37% to 52%. These are the worst figures on record by a large margin and make A&E the service with lowest satisfaction levels for the first time. Satisfaction with NHS dentistry has continued to collapse. As recently as 2019 this was at 60%, but it has now fallen to a record low of 20%. Dissatisfaction levels (55%) are the highest for any specific NHS service asked about. Satisfaction with GP services continued to fall, mirroring the trend over the last few years. 31% of respondents said they were satisfied with GP services, compared with 34% in 2023. Inpatient and outpatient hospital care is the part of the NHS with the highest levels of satisfaction, with 32% saying they were satisfied and only 28% dissatisfied. Attitudes to standards of care, staffing and efficiency The majority of the public (51%) said they were satisfied with the quality of NHS care. People aged 65 and over were more likely to be satisfied (68%) with the quality of NHS care than those under 65 (47%). Dissatisfaction with waiting times and the ability to get an appointment is widespread, and is consistent across respondents from all ages and UK countries: 62% of all respondents were dissatisfied with the time it takes to get a GP appointment. 23% were satisfied. 65% of respondents said they were dissatisfied with the length of time it takes to get hospital care. 14% said they were satisfied. Dissatisfaction levels are highest regarding the length of time it takes to be seen in A&E. 69% of respondents said they were dissatisfied, while just 12% said they were satisfied. Only 11% agreed that ‘there are enough staff in the NHS these days’. 72% disagreed. NHS funding, principles and priorities 8% of respondents said that the government spent too much or far too much money on the NHS; 21% said that it spent about the right amount, and 69% said that it spent too little or far too little. When asked about government choices on tax and spending on the NHS, the public would narrowly choose increasing taxes and raising NHS spend (46%) over keeping them the same (41%). Only 8% would prefer tax reductions and lower NHS spending. Only 14% of respondents agreed that ‘the NHS spends the money it has efficiently’. 51% disagreed with this statement. Respondents felt the most important priorities for the NHS should be making it easier to get a GP appointment (51%) and improving A&E waiting times (49%), with increases in staff (48%) and better hospital waiting times close behind (also 48%). A&E has now slightly overtaken staffing as a priority, reflecting the sharp fall in satisfaction described above. People under 65 were more likely to prioritise improving mental health services (34%) than those aged 65 and over (21%). As in previous years, a strong majority of respondents agreed that the founding principles of the NHS should ‘definitely’ or ‘probably’ apply in 2024: that the NHS should be free of charge when you need to use it (90%); the NHS should primarily be funded through taxes (80%); and the NHS should be available to everyone (77%). The percentage of people saying that the NHS should ‘definitely’ be available to everyone decreased from 67% in 2023 to 56% in 2024. This is the only statistically significant change year-on-year across all three principles. Supporters of the Reform party (20%) were significantly less likely to say that the NHS should ‘definitely’ be available to everyone than the survey average.
  9. News Article
    More than a quarter of Britons unable to secure NHS dental appointments in the past two years have resorted to self-treatment, a new poll reveals, highlighting a deepening crisis in NHS dentistry. Almost one in five sought treatment abroad, underscoring the lengths people are going to for dental care. Experts have urged the Government to “pick up pace and keep its promises” on dentistry, to avoid patients “reaching for pliers or cheap flights”. The poll, conducted by Ipsos for the PA news agency, surveyed 1,091 British adults. It found that fewer than half (48%) had successfully booked an NHS dental appointment within the last two years. While over a third (36%) hadn't attempted to make an appointment, a significant 18 per cent reported being unable to secure one, painting a stark picture of access challenges. Among those who could not get an appointment, more than a quarter (26%) said they had treated themselves, while 19% said they went abroad for treatment. Eddie Crouch, chairman of the British Dental Association, said: “Desperate people are reaching for pliers or cheap flights because for many NHS dentistry has effectively ceased to exist. “This service can have a future, but only if government is willing to pick up pace and keep its promises.” Read full story Source: The Independent, 21 March 2025
  10. News Article
    A dentist says he feels "strangled" by NHS contracts and believes NHS dentists may not exist in two years' time. Dr Harj Singhrao, who has a practice in Newbridge, Caerphilly, said money was allocated on a "one size fits all basis" meaning in high need areas like his, he had to lose money in order to provide good care. It comes as the British Dental Association (BDA) Cymru published an open letter accusing the Welsh government of "peddling half- truths", adding more practices were looking to hand NHS contracts back. The Welsh government said: "We are working to ensure the NHS dental contract is fairer for patients and to the dental profession." Dentists who want to treat NHS patients sign a contract with the Welsh government, which then gives them money per patient under the condition of certain targets, such as seeing a certain number of new patients. If these targets are not met, dentists may have to pay some money back as a penalty. Dr Singhrao is the principal dentist at Newbridge Dental Care and had to pay £50,000 back to the Welsh government. He said this was because he took on too many new NHS patients, but had to close a position at his practice as a result. He said the formula of treating every patient across Wales equally "does not work". Read full story Source: BBC News, 17 February 2025
  11. News Article
    A growing “exodus” of dentists willing to provide care on the NHS threatens to exacerbate the crisis in patients’ access to treatment, the profession’s leaders have said. Dentists are increasingly stopping doing NHS-funded work because their fees for many procedures do not even cover the costs involved, according to the British Dental Association (BDA). The fact that NHS payments had not kept pace with rising costs was forcing dental surgeries in England to “operate like a charity” when carrying out work for the health service, it said. The situation was so serious that dentists were in effect subsiding the NHS care they provided from their private work to the tune of about £332m a year, according to BDA analysis. Dentists lost £42.60 every time they fitted dentures and £7.69 on each examination of a new patient’s dental health when the NHS was paying for the treatment, it said. The findings come weeks after Wes Streeting, the health secretary, warned MPs that “NHS dentistry is at death’s door” and promised to take steps to save it from extinction. The inability to get NHS dental care, and the consequent emergence of “DIY dentistry” and “dental deserts” across swaths of England, has become a key public and political concern in recent years. Read full story Source: The Guardian, 13 February 2025
  12. News Article
    In chronic pain, unable to find an NHS practice and priced out of private care, Colla – like millions of Britons – felt she had no choice but to take matters into her own hands. Linda Colla holds an imaginary tooth between her forefinger and thumb and pulls it. Then she adds some rotation. Extracting her own teeth required wiggling and twisting, she explains. “It took me a couple of weeks to get each one out, because they just loosened and loosened and loosened. I used a tissue to get a better grip.” She points to a front incisor. It was the first to come out. Then a canine and finally a big molar. “It sounds very dramatic, pulling them out. But actually they were already loose,” she says. There was some pain on extraction, but they had been causing her constant pain before that. “It was too painful to eat. They just had to come out.” In 2018, Colla moved to east Devon. She contacted various dental surgeries and was told either that they didn’t take NHS patients or that they didn’t have the capacity to take any more. She went on a waiting list. “I got an email once – or was it a text? – asking if I still wanted to be on the list. I said yes, but I haven’t heard anything since.” She presumes, seven years on, she is still on that list. To have a tooth removed privately costs at least £150. Colla couldn’t afford that. When her three remaining real teeth became too painful to live with, about three years ago, she felt she had no choice but to take matters into her own hands. Thirteen million people in England – 28% of the adult population – have an unmet need for dentistry, according to an analysis in July by the British Dental Association (BDA). The number of people on waiting lists for an NHS dentist is estimated to be about 780,000. When the BDA and the Daily Mirror called up 100 practices listed on nhs.uk as “accepting new patients when availability allows”, they found that 86 were not accepting new patients. Some practices reported a waiting list of up to 10 years. In March 2023, YouGov found that 10% of Britons had carried out their own dental work; 34% of those had pulled out – or tried to pull out – their teeth. Read full story Source: The Guardian, 12 February 2025
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    In line with the Government Mandate, the 2025/26 priorities and operational planning guidance sets out a focused, smaller number of national priorities for 2025/26 with an emphasis on improving access to timely care for patients, increasing productivity and living within allocated budgets, and driving reform. To support this, systems will have greater control and flexibility over how they use local funding to best meet the needs of their local population. The national priorities to improve patient outcomes in 2025/26 are: Reduce the time people wait for elective care, improving the percentage of patients waiting no longer than 18 weeks for elective treatment to 65% nationally by March 2026, with every trust expected to deliver a minimum 5% point improvement. Systems are expected to continue to improve performance against the cancer 62-day and 28-day Faster Diagnosis Standard (FDS) to 75% and 80% respectively by March 2026. Improve A&E waiting times and ambulance response times compared to 2024/25, with a minimum of 78% of patients seen within 4 hours in March 2026. Category 2 ambulance response times should average no more than 30 minutes across 2025/26. Improve patients’ access to general practice, improving patient experience, and improve access to urgent dental care, providing 700,000 additional urgent dental appointments. Improve patient flow through mental health crisis and acute pathways, reducing average length of stay in adult acute beds, and improve access to children and young people’s (CYP) mental health services, to achieve the national ambition for 345,000 additional CYP aged 0 to 25 compared to 2019. In delivering on these priorities for patients and service users, ICBs and providers must work together, with support from NHS England, to: Drive the reform that will support delivery of our immediate priorities and ensure the NHS is fit for the future. For 2025/26 we ask ICBs and providers to focus on: Reducing demand through developing Neighbourhood Health Service models with an immediate focus on preventing long and costly admissions to hospital and improving timely access to urgent and emergency care. Making full use of digital tools to drive the shift from analogue to digital. Addressing inequalities and shift towards secondary prevention. Live within the budget allocated, reducing waste and improving productivity. ICBs, trusts and primary care providers must work together to plan and deliver a balanced net system financial position in collaboration with other integrated care system (ICS) partners. This will require prioritisation of resources and stopping lower-value activity. Maintain our collective focus on the overall quality and safety of our services, paying particular attention to challenged and fragile services including maternity and neonatal services, delivering the key actions of ‘Three year delivery plan’, and continue to address variation in access, experience and outcomes.
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    Learning from clinical data on the subject of safety in dentistry is still in its early stages and current evidence does not provide epidemiological estimates on adverse events (AEs) associated with dental care. The aim of this dental practice study was to quantify and describe the nature and severity of harm experienced in association with dental care, and to assess for disparities in the prevalence of AEs.
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    Fatigue has been explored by other healthcare professions for many years and is acknowledged as a potential risk factor for incidents of unintended harm as well as for the wellbeing of the healthcare team. As dentistry is a profession and service that has a central focus of patient safety, it could be perceived as irresponsible not to consider fatigue in risk strategies.
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    This report sets out information on the current delivery of NHS dentistry services and the development and progress of the plan for 2024-25. It looks at: access to NHS dentistry before the plan development of the 2024 dental recovery plan the government’s progress against the dental recovery plan’s objectives and plans for evaluation. It concludes that the dental recovery plan aspires to deliver more than an additional 1.5 million courses of treatment in 2024-25 but is not currently on course to do so. Even if these additional courses of treatment are delivered by the end of 2024-25, the plan would still mean that 2.6 million fewer courses of treatment would have been delivered than in 2018-19.
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    People experiencing homelessness, looked after children and vulnerable migrants are among those groups being supported by initiatives to improve access to dental services for underserved communities in Yorkshire and Humber. Following publication of the paper “Inclusion Health: applying all our health”, which calls on health and care professionals to take action to reduce healthcare inequalities, local stakeholders identified a number of opportunities for targeted interventions to improve access, experience and outcomes for socially excluded and vulnerable groups known to have high dental needs in the area.
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    Plans to end the deepening crisis in access to NHS dental care are failing, leaving patients unable to get treatment, according to a warning from the government’s spending watchdog. The National Audit Office’s (NAO) damning verdict on the “dental recovery plan” prompted patient groups to voice alarm that people’s struggles with decayed teeth represents “a serious public health concern”. A pledge to provide an extra 1.5m treatments in England this year is in disarray amid falls in both the number of dentists doing NHS work and people receiving help from them. There is “significant uncertainty” as to whether that ambition will be fulfilled because two key elements of the plan have not been achieved, an NAO investigation found. None of the promised new fleet of mobile dental vans has appeared and £20,000 “golden hellos”, to entice 240 dentists to work in areas of acute shortage, have only produced one extra dentist. The plan, launched in February by the then Conservative government, promised that “everyone who needs to see a dentist will be able to do so” during 2024-25. However, “based on initial analysis to date, the plan is not on track to deliver the additional courses of treatment,” the NAO concluded. Even if the plan did provide what was promised, the NHS would still be offering 2.6m fewer treatments this year than before Covid hit in early 2020, it added. Read full story Source: The Guardian, 27 November 2024
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    The impact of the pandemic on dental services was devastating. While the data is showing that the situation has improved since the first year of the pandemic, there is much more work to be done - particularly to improve the provision of care across England. The government has announced a plan to make dental services faster, simpler and fairer. It aims to improve dental services by making them: faster for patients through our new patient premium to support dentists to take on new patients and a new marketing campaign to help everyone who needs one to find a dentist simpler for patients and for dental staff by streamlining and tackling bureaucracy, with a wider set of workforce reforms to maximise the skills across the entire dental clinical team fairer, particularly for our rural and coastal communities, by introducing new dental vans to bring dental care to our most isolated communities, offering ‘golden hello’ incentives to encourage dentists into under-served areas and supporting those practices with the lowest rates of payment for their work The plan has 3 components. In 2024, we will significantly expand access so that everyone who needs to see a dentist will be able to. This will begin with measures to ensure those who have been unable to access care in the past 2 years will be able to do so - by offering a significant incentive to dentists to deliver this valuable NHS care. We are introducing mobile dental vans to take dentists and surgeries to isolated under-served communities. We will launch ‘Smile for Life’ - a major new focus on prevention and good oral health in young children, to be delivered via nurseries and other settings providing Start for Life services, and promoted by Family Hubs. We will also introduce dental outreach to primary schools in under-served areas, and take forward a consultation on expanding fluoridation of water to the north-east of England - a highly effective public health measure. We will ramp up the level of dental provision in the medium and longer term by supporting and developing the whole dental workforce, increasing workforce capacity as we have committed to do in the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan, reducing bureaucracy and setting the trajectory for longer-term reforms of the NHS dental contract.
  20. News Article
    An orthodontist whose unorthodox methods around shaping the jawline have gained popularity on social media has been struck off after a boy ‘suffered seizure-like episodes’ during treatment. Dr Mike Mew, whose “mewing” techniques have racked up more than two billion views on TikTok and were the subject of a Netflix documentary, was found to be a “risk to public safety” by the General Dental Council following a misconduct hearing. Following a tribunal held on Monday and a seven-year investigation, Dr Mew is set to be erased from the dental register and was given an immediate suspension order “for the protection of the public.” The tribunal said: “Committee considered that not to impose an immediate order would be inconsistent and undermine its findings which found that you were a risk to public safety as you were undertaking treatments with no objective evidence base.” A misconduct hearing last year was told the boy struggled to keep the devices on this long and the episodes were triggered if he was pushed too far to wear them. Qualified dentist Aliyah Janmohamed, who worked with Dr Mew at his clinic in Purley, south London, between June 2017 and January 2019, said: “Sometimes Patient B has post-traumatic episodes following past medical interventions." The child’s mother also told Ms Janmohamed in a phone call that Dr Mew “never listens” to her concerns and she was unhappy with his “one-size-fits-all” approach, adding that he was a “dangerous professional who needs to listen to his patients more”. Read full story Source: The Independent, 9 November 2024 We want to hear from patients with experience of NHS and/or private orthodontists and dentists in any healthcare setting, including community practices and hospitals. Did the orthodontist/dentist give you the treatment and support you needed? If you had ongoing problems, how did the orthodontist/dentist and other healthcare professionals respond? Have you tried to make a complaint? Share your story and read other hub members' experiences in our Community thread:
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    People across Devon and Cornwall are often waiting around four years to register with an NHS dentist, according to information collected by an integrated care board (ICB). A paper in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly noted “people waiting an average of 1,441 days to register with a dentist”, which equates to about three years and 11 months. A spokesperson for NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly ICB said: “We are implementing a range of measures locally to address national pressures on NHS dentistry. “This includes commissioning additional urgent care and stabilisation services, operating an emergency dental service to deliver 20,000 appointments a year, an extensive schools’ dental education programme, free dental treatment for local fishing communities, and a pilot which is helping to retain NHS treatment for children and other vulnerable patients and is treating some of those who have been waiting the longest.” The British Dental Association said four-year waiting periods are “not unheard of” and it estimates unmet need for NHS dentistry now stands at 13 million, or more than one in four of the adult population. NICE recommends adults should have oral health reviews every two years. Read full story (paywalled) Source: HSJ, 9 October 2024
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    The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh launched a series of blogs in recognition of the World Patient Safety Day (WPSD) 2024 theme of "Improving Diagnosis for Patient Safety". RCSEd World Patient Safety Day 2024 A Novel Facial Cellulitis Pathway: Improving the Time to Surgery for Facial Necrotising Fasciitis Improving Diagnosis for Safety in Dentistry Using Audit to Improve Outcomes for Patients with Upper Tract Urothelial Cancer Diagnostic Safety in Surgery WHO World Patient Safety Day 2024: Improving Diagnosis for Patient Safety The Importance of Teamwork for Surgical Diagnostic Safety in Outpatients Challenges in the Diagnosis of Twin Silent Killers: Aortic Aneurysm and Acute Aortic Dissection Improving Diagnostic Safety in Orthopaedics NCEPOD: Prioritising Diagnostic Safety for Better Health Outcomes Protecting our Precious Gift of Life World Patient Safety Day 2024 — A View from the Bridge Can My Stool be Tested for Bowel Cancer? Virtual Diagnostics The Potential of AI to Help Reduce Diagnostic Errors Non-Technical Skills for Surgeons (NOTSS). Vignette 3 of 3. Leadership in Surgery: A Case Study Non-Technical Skills for Surgeons (NOTSS). Vignette 2 of 3. Team Communication: The Key to Clarity and Precisio Non-Technical Skills for Surgeons (NOTSS). Vignette 1 of 3. Situation Awareness: Staying Ahead of Potential Issues Enhancing Diagnostic Safety in Surgery Through Non-Technical Skills Diagnosing Acute Aortic Dissection – The Patient Perspective
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    Primary care – general practice, community pharmacy, optometry and dental services – delivers 90% of NHS interactions, face to face, by phone or online. The Primary care patient safety strategy describes the national and local commitments to improve patient safety in primary care, supporting all areas in this sector to fully implement the NHS Patient Safety Strategy. This strategy has three core areas of focus: Developing a supportive, learning environment and just culture in primary care, with sharing across the system so that the services can continually improve. Ensuring that the safety and wellbeing of patients and staff is central, and that our approach to managing safety is systematic and based on safety science and systems thinking. Involving patients in the identification and co-design of primary care patient safety ambitions, opportunities and improvements. This strategy seeks to continuously improve patient safety through existing processes and structures as much as possible, rather than adding work. The timeframes for the implementation of the local commitments are intentionally flexible to allow for the piloting of different approaches, and, while this strategy is for all areas of primary care, some improvements will be implemented first in general practice and the successes and learning then used in the rollout to community pharmacy, optometry and dental services. In summary: Safety culture: participate in the NHS staff survey. Safety systems: complete patient safety syllabus training. Insight: register for and use the new incident recording (LFPSE) and incident response (PSIRF) systems. Involvement: identify patient safety leads and lay patient safety partners. Improvement: review and test patient safety improvements in diagnosis, medication, referrals, optometry and dental services.
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    In this interview with BDJ In Practice, British Orthodontic Society (BOS) President Nikki Atack discusses the society's 30th birthday and the changing landscape within orthodontics. She talks about new guidance on integration new technologies into orthodontist practice, the rise of 'DIY orthodontics' and the importance of maintaining funding for research in the field of orthodontics. Related reading “I’ve been mocked, scolded and gaslighted”: a harmed patient’s experience of orthodontic treatment A patient harmed by orthodontic treatment shares their story Community conversation: Share your experience of orthodontist and dentistry services
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    We want to hear from patients with experience of NHS and/or private orthodontists and dentists in any healthcare setting, including community practices and hospitals. Did the orthodontist/dentist give you the treatment and support you needed? If you had ongoing problems, how did the orthodontist/dentist and other healthcare professionals respond? Have you tried to make a complaint? You can read one patient's experience in this opinion piece: “I’ve been mocked, scolded and gaslighted”: a harmed patient’s experience of orthodontic treatment
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