Eddie Crouch. NHS dentistry Archives

9 Oct 2019 • Blog, NHS

Your dentistry questions answered: dentists’ ability to take control of the future

At a recent major dental exhibition, we gathered a panel of well-known dentists to answer the biggest questions in dentistry today. As the host of the panel, I had some pre-prepared questions, however the audience…

28 Sep 2019 • Blog, Dentistry Confidence Monitor

Dentistry – a profession that trusts no one?

Trust is a word that gets bandied around a lot in dentistry. Usually it’s in the context of creating a trusting relationship with your patients and building rapport. However, what’s not spoken about as often…

24 Jun 2019 • Blog, NHS

Weighing up the pros and cons of dental contract reform

When NHS dental contract reform begins being rolled out, practices may well find themselves working under new targets and a new way of being paid. This might sound a little vague and that’s because it…

18 Feb 2019 • Blog, NHS

A potential workforce crisis in dentistry

Nigel Jones discusses the issues surrounding dentist recruitment and retention with Eddie Crouch, Simon Thackeray and Ros Keeton… Recruitment and retention are two sides of the same troubling coin for the future of dentistry, particularly…

15 Oct 2018 • Blog, NHS

Creating a crisis to force change

Nigel Jones, Eddie Crouch and Tony Kilcoyne talk clawback, collective action and crisis as a catalyst for change in NHS dentistry…

14 Mar 2018 • Blog, NHS

Eddie Crouch explores the issue of the corporates having an advantage when the new contract is introduced

Among the many questions that dentists have about the impact of a reformed dental contract in England, is one about whether the corporate businesses will have an ‘edge’ when it’s introduced. It is understandable that…

6 Feb 2017 • Blog, NHS

NHS dentistry: staying positive in the current climate

Confidence in the future of NHS dentistry remains low, and with continued uncertainty and no changes set to take shape anytime soon, Practice Plan asks wet-fingered clinicians, Eddie Crouch, Judith Husband, David Houston and David…