NHS Dental Contract Archives

9 Jun 2023 • Blog, NHS

Has NHS dentistry reached the point of no return?

Once again, Practice Plan’s Dental Business Theatre saw key industry figures debating the most important issues in dentistry under the heading ‘Dentistry’s biggest questions answered’. The session that garnered the biggest audience was ‘Is there…

10 Mar 2023 • Blog, Our News

Keeping things in the family – Delph Dental

In the latest in our blog series about why people maintain long-standing relationships with Practice Plan, Suki Singh speaks to John Hume-Spry, Principal Dentist and owner of Delph Dental in Derbyshire, to find out more…

30 Sep 2022 • Blog, Practice Management

How to set charges for children on membership plans

Moving to private practice and not sure what to do about charging for children? Sales Support Manager, Michelle Hardy, shares a few suggestions on how to go about it. Charging for children can be a…

20 Sep 2022 • Blog, NHS

How Practice Plan helped a dentist turn around his business and expand his horizons

Regional Support Manager, Jayne Gibson recounts how an NHS dentist who was facing the prospect of having to close one of his two surgeries in Workington, Cumbria is now looking forward to making full use…

6 Jun 2022 • Blog, Dental Landscape, Mental Health

Is there a future for NHS dentistry?

Any NHS dentist thinking about whether to move to private dentistry, is likely to be asking themselves whether the NHS has a future. And if it does, is it a future that they want to…

8 Jul 2021 • Blog, NHS

NHS dentistry – your questions answered…

Practice Plan’s Nigel Jones and the British Dental Association’s (BDA) Eddie Crouch delved into a range of topics within the NHS dental landscape in a recent webinar. Throughout the webinar, many dentists submitted questions…

15 Dec 2020 • Blog, NHS

Why 2021 will be the year we go private

In 2013, Luisa Dalla Riva, Practice Manager, and Andy Berwick, Principal Dentist, became the owners of Market Place Dentistry in Thirsk. The practice has been offering both NHS and private treatment, but the couple have…

22 Oct 2020 • Blog, Covid-19, Practice Management

Being an NHS prototype practice during the pandemic…

Before COVID-19, reform of the NHS dental contract was probably one of the most talked about subjects in dentistry. Which perhaps goes to show the magnitude of the impact of the pandemic on the profession,…

18 Aug 2020 • Podcasts, NHS

Inside Out: NHS Dentistry Discussed with Eddie Crouch

Catch-up on episode one of Inside Out: NHS Dentistry Discussed… Nigel Jones, Practice Plan Sales and Marketing Director, talks to Eddie Crouch, Vice Chair of the British Dental Association (BDA) Principal Executive Committee, about the…

4 Aug 2019 • Blog, Dental Landscape

Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it

Nigel Jones urges dentists to take steps to ensure they don’t face the same challenges that many did after the 2006 contract reform…

25 Jun 2019 • Podcasts

Does being a prototype have an impact on the value of a practice?

Dentist Paul Worskett and Richard Holmes from Dental Partners discuss the general factors affecting the value of a practice and what impact being a prototype has from the perspective of a buyer and a seller.…

18 Apr 2019 • Blog, NHS

VWV Healthcare Lawyer Mark Jarvis discusses the risks of losing a child-only NHS contract

There is a perception among some of the profession that NHS dental practices with a child-only contract are becoming a rarity that are increasingly under threat. Those that have such contracts are often aware of…

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…

12 Oct 2018 • Blog, NHS

David Cottam, Vice-Chair of the BDA’s GDPC explains how is the fee uplift calculated each year

The pay increase awarded to dentists annually is often a source of consternation for the profession, with many dentists feeling it is not adequate reparation for their hard work. There is also the discrepancy between…

2 Jul 2018 • Podcasts

What the rollout of the new contract really means for NHS dentistry

Nigel Jones talks to Eddie Crouch about the rollout of the revised NHS England contract. They discuss the impact that Brexit may have on the planned timescales for rollout and what he thinks it will…

30 Jun 2018 • Blog, NHS

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…

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…

12 Dec 2017 • Podcasts, Dentistry Confidence Monitor

Tony Kilcoyne considers the NHS Confidence Monitor results and what they mean for the future of NHS dentistry

In this episode of Bodcast, Nigel Jones and Tony Kilcoyne take a look at the NHS Confidence Monitor results in relation to the general views and feelings of the profession about NHS dentistry now, and…