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481 medical consultants, 73% of them NHS employees, owned shares in 34 joint ventures with for-profit healthcare companies in 2020. This generated £31 million in dividends for them, an average dividend of £11,600 a year, over the previous 6 years according to research by the Centre for Health and the Public Interest. [8]
mydentist treats a mixture of private and NHS patients. In 2018 it treated more than four million people. [5] In 2022 this increased to over five Million people. [6] It runs an annual clinical conference, which in 2018 was attended by more than 600 dentists and dental professionals. [7]
Dentists in the UK may undertake work under the National Health Service or privately. They may opt for either of these alternatives, or both. A small number of dentists are employed by the NHS but the vast majority are in private practice. UK dentists are regulated by the General Dental Council [1] and the Care Quality Commission. [2]
The UK has the fifth largest share of healthcare financed through government schemes out of the 36 OECD member states. [6]According to the Department of Health and Social Care a total of £9.2 billion was paid to private providers in England in 2018-9, or about 7% of the departmental budget (it would be a larger proportion of the NHS budget).
NHS dentistry has often struggled to even see 55% of the population in a one-year period. [6]Following the government's introduction of a new contract in April 2006, NHS dentistry is not as widely available as it once was, [7] with 900,000 fewer patients seeing an NHS dentist in 2008 and 300,000 losing their NHS dentist in a single month. [8]
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Dental care is provided at public and private dental offices. Dental services are free for everyone up to 20 years of age. From the age of 20 and upwards there is a fixed state refund which usually is, depending on the dentist's fee and what type of dentistry performed, around 10% – 15% of the total cost.
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