Posted on 03/30/2008 9:30:34 PM PDT by pissant
Health service dentists have been forced to go on holiday or spend time on the golf course this month despite millions of patients being denied dental care.
Many have fulfilled their annual work quotas allotted by the National Health Service and have been turning patients away because they are not paid to do extra work. This is despite the fact that more than 7m people in Britain are unable to find an NHS dentist.
Patients have been told they must either pay privately or return in April when the new work year begins. People suffering from toothache have been advised to go to hospital.
Areas affected include Merseyside, Derbyshire, Birmingham and East Sussex. Eddie Crouch, secretary of the Birmingham local dental committee, estimates that up to a third of dentists in the West Midlands have run out of work or have had to reduce the number of NHS patients they treat. “Patients in pain have had to shop around to find a dentist that has not used up their quota,” he said.
The British Dental Association fears that other dentists have been unable to meet their quotas and will be forced to pay back thousands of pounds to the NHS.
The health department says dentists should have managed their workload throughout the year.
Nonsense. Everyone knows dentistry was outlawed in the UK long ago.
Cackle’s planned Director of National Hillary Care? Yeah, baby!
When dentistry is outlawed...only criminals willl have good teeth.
You can't convince me that a standing relationship with the same medical professionals over the years is not a good thing.
Then I picture a government system with a turnstile type thing where medical care is given to whomever has the next "number" when it's called out.
How can anyone even think of nationalizing health care?
British socialist dentistry is amazing. In the USA if you work harder and more efficiently, you make more money. In the UK, you incur a severe financial penalty.
Un-freeking-believable. Are they insane?
On the other hand, the US offers cheap vacations and super inexpensive shopping for the strong pound Brits.
My wife was just recently on a business trip in Canada.
When she got home, one of the things that she remarked upon was how many Canadians have bad teeth.
ping
But it's FREE bad teeth. For everyone. Whether you want bad teeth or not.
I wonder what the “root” of the problem is?
'Cuz they've been lied to and believe it's "free"......
Many have fulfilled their annual work quotas allotted by the National Health Service and have been turning patients away because they are not paid to do extra work.
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Coming soon to the U.S.!
Thanks for the ping. It amazes me that any medical provider would want to work under such a system and that people haven’t figured out government is not the solution to the human condition! That they so willingly give their freedoms over to bureaucrats.
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