Your dentistry questions answered: the prototype programme

From April 2020 the new general dental contract for England will begin being rolled out. Several questions remain about how exactly that will happen, one of which is whether practice owners will be able to…

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The questions you should be asking in the run up to contract reform…

There are just months to go until contract reform begins being rolled out in April 2020. That means that any practice in England with some commitment to the NHS, needs to begin considering what it…

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Prototype practices perspectives on what the future holds

Following confirmation that the contract reform process will rumble on for another two years, with fresh calls for new practices to join the prototype programme, I caught up with two dentists already involved. Len D’Cruz…

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A practice manager and owner from a prototype B practice discuss how their practice has managed the level of administration

A lot of discussion has taken place around the financial aspect of contract reform, as well as the affect it may have on the patient care pathway. However, here we look at what changes any…

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Paul Worskett discusses the level of financial risk associated with running a prototype B practice

Contract reform remains a source of uncertainty and one of the issues that is still unknown is what level of financial risk dentists may face when, or if, it is implemented. A measure of success…

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Ben Atkins shares his experience as a director of a prototype blend B practice

Since April 2016 two different blends of remuneration have been tested out by practices (a total of 80 are currently involved) as part of the contract reform process. The difference lies in the proportion of…

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Insight into the fees currently paid out to prototype dentists

With the NHS prototype practices now a few months into their trials, Practice Plan met up with Eddie Crouch, Charles Major and Paul Worskett to discuss their thoughts on the current fees being paid out…

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Inside a prototype practice

There has been a fair amount of talk in the last few months about the NHS dental prototypes, most of which, as far as I can tell, is speculative and very little seems to be…

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Prototypes – A discussion on blends and how they work in practice

Today’s unmissable episode of Bodcast focuses upon the latest stage of the reform programme to the English NHS dental contract. Listen as host, Sales and Marketing Director Nigel Jones catches up with practice owner and…

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Rubik’s NHS Blog No.2

In my most recent blog, I likened the challenge of embedding prevention in a redesigned English NHS contract to the challenge of completing a Rubik’s Cube – solving one issue unintentionally creates others. This analogy…

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