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Simon Thackeray

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Dental Practice Owner, Expert Witness, BAPD Executive member, director, BDA GDPC Member, Writer, Drummer, and forthright Yorkshireman. Views are all my own.

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Potentially opens the Pandora’s box very widely…will the Gdc now have to revisit old cases sanctioned prior to this clarification? I think so….

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If it were football it’s like Dentist United vs NHS city drawing in the final Minute Of extra time with GDC providing the referee…who then goes up to deflect a perfect header past the NHs keeper and having to allow the goal…

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Gdc is prosecuting cases based on flawed understanding of the regs, and no independent investigation. Careers at risk - and NO proper investigation, just expert opinion.

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Perhaps the GDC understanding the regulations it prosecutes cases under might be a start rather than helping the profession understand something they clearly know how to do already given the number of Blue on blues.

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It could even be that the mailbox is set up incorrectly by the BSA as happened to me. Cost £18k over 3/4 years which they refused to accept.

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And yet they don’t want to hear any live evidence regarding the disastrous shut down of dentistry during the lockdowns, resulting in problems that are still manifesting. BDA British Association of Private Dentistry

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I’d argue that Eddie Crouch and BDA have done far more to slow the exodus than any other stakeholder. Unfortunately Sarah Vine is blaming the bloke trying to stop the Titanic sinking with just a bailing bucket. He hasn’t steered it onto the iceberg….

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In one. You can’t indenture new grads into servitude on qualification just because the system in so poor. You going to suggest next that all journos have to do 5 years working for a government propaganda mouthpiece??

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And of course where is the funding then going to come from to them Provide the dentistry that the population need? Currently it’s enough for only about 25% of the population (on today’s dental Costs)

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They can’t afford the training infrastructure or the wages after qualification before we think about how Much a bursary would be. Unless it’s just going to be a 10% discount card at Wetherspoons….

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And handing it back for Me was like having handcuffs chained to concrete removed. No more inane ‘initiatives’ and emails from the local area team, no ever decreasing hoops to jump through. I’m more likely get a lift to the Moon from a Passing ufo than go back.

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Perhaps They could use cars to quickly and easily move to a place of work…and pay £12.50 of their wages every day for the privilege Lisa Nandy MP Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan now there’s a thought.

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To provide the level of care patients need means inc. the number of NHS dentists at least 2x. So you need to train about 18000 EXTRA dentists..will take about 18 years even if you double uni places. You can’t afford the current nhs amount so where’s the funding for more?

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change.org/p/include-dent… Dentistry was ignored during Covid and appears to be once again. No wonder there are problems. No one listens.