As Ministers launch a consultation, the British Dental Association has stressed that ‘tying-in’ inexperienced younger dentists will never compensate for the ongoing losses of older, experienced colleagues fuelled by the discredited NHS contract. The Government are seeking views on proposals to make dental graduates complete a number of years working in the NHS, including the possibility of making them repay some of the costs of their education if they do not. The Health and Social Care Committee stressed in its damning inquiry into NHS dentistry that the success of any tie-in hinges on “fundamental contract reform.” The target-based system NHS
Dentists: Tie-ins won’t halt exodus from service as seen on The Hippocratic Post.