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First Dentist Deadline Tomorrow

The big test for the New NHS Dental Contract is how many dentists have signed their new contracts by the end of Tomorrow.

That is the only time we will really know how difficult things will be getting. The government have banned queues for NHS Dentists.

As it stands there are dentists willing to take on new NHS patients, but the PCTs don't have the budget for this.

Comments

Bob Piper said…
I rushed down to my dentist as soon as I read this to try to commit a bit of civil disobedience... but there wasn't a queue, and he said he'd never had a queue, and, bloody good dentist that he is, he is still taking NHS patients. His address is available on request.

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