More treatment, same access: what the 2025/26 NHS dental figures do — and don’t — tell your practice
England delivered 37.6 million courses of NHS dental treatment last year, up 6.2%, while the share of the adult population seen barely moved. The…
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Therapist scope: the constraint is your rota, not the rules
A recent Dentistry.co.uk piece argues that policy has moved on dental therapy while practice has not. There is a genuine operational opportunity here —…
The UK Dental Workforce by the Numbers: Who’s Really on the Register
Ask an owner to picture the profession and they picture dentists. Of the 131,680 on the GDC register, barely a third are.
Skill Mix in Dental Practice: Who Can Do What, and Who Carries the Risk
A regulatory question before it is a business one: who can treat without a dentist present, and where the liability lands when they do.