Do more with less?

For the eighth consecutive year the BDA is reporting a continuing fall in dentists’ real incomes. It has argued that this state of affairs is now unsustainable and recommended that dentists must receive a minimum of the full one per cent targeted pay increase.

The BDA’s evidence covers all four UK countries; England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales and provides a detailed analysis of the challenges facing practitioners in general practice, the community/salaried services, and in academia.

Eddie Crouch, the BDA’s Vice Chair and Chair of its Review Body Evidence Committee said:

“For the eighth year running dentists have been asked to do more with less. These cuts have consequences, and patients inevitably suffer when practitioners are left incapable of investing in new equipment, while struggling with ever increasing reams of red tape. The priority for dentists is high quality care, and years of sustained cuts have made it difficult to deliver what our patients quite rightly deserve.