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Originally Posted by Incognitas
Any other suggestions we can offer to Tony?Please present them here or to the article in the link.
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Pay dentists more?
The NHS seems to think that they can pay a healthcare provider less just because it's the NHS. The dentists realised that they could make more money for the same (or less) work privately.
I did a lot of work for the NHS for a few years......they payed me about 35% less than my normal rate (and my normal rate was
very reasonable) while increasing my levels of paperwork by about 200%
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In addition, I was only allowed to give each patient 6 treatments (many need far more)--the NHS can be quite restrictive in that way--something that limits the effectiveness of nhs physiotherapy.
So what you have is a system that underpays it's staff whilst simultaneously causing them extra work and professionally frustrating them.
You can start to see why the dentists have decided to stick two fingers up at the NHS......