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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 government has a list of professional associations approved for tax purposes (this includes some non-UK based associations, which are not included here). [1] There is a separate list of regulators in the United Kingdom for bodies that are regulators rather than professional associations.
It comes as a patient champion said there is widespread confusion about registration for NHS dentistry. Concern as some NHS dentists will ‘accept children only if parents go private’ Skip to ...
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]
The Robert and Lillian Lindsay Library was opened in 1920. It was founded and organised by Lillian Lindsay, the first woman to qualify as a dentist in the UK. [10] The library is the most comprehensive dental library in Europe, and subscribes to over 200 dental journals and provides members with free Medline searches.
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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]