English dentists ‘walking away’ from NHS work as fees fail to cover costs

Exclusive: Surgeries having to ‘operate like a charity’ and subsidise NHS work by £332m a year, says BDAA growing “exodus” of dentists willing to provide care on the NHS threatens to exacerbate the crisis in patients’ access to treatment, the profession’s leaders have said.Dentists are increasingly stopping doing NHS-funded work because their fees for many procedures do not even cover the costs involved, according to the British Dental Association (BDA). Continue reading...