NHS dentists call for greater positivity about the sector

More positive messages about NHS dentistry need to be spread in the national press in order to improve optimism about the direction of the industry.

This is according to respondents to the latest NHS Confidence Monitor survey, which indicated that dental professionals largely feel that more positive messages would help to improve the public's perception and understanding of NHS dentistry.

Moreover, more than half of respondents said they had ideas on how to improve the profession's confidence in NHS dentistry at a time when recent contract disputes have created a considerable amount of pessimism.

Indeed, elsewhere in the study it was revealed that 90 percent of team members are less confident in the future of NHS dentistry overall than they were 12 months ago, while 84 percent said the same of their own career prospects.

Meanwhile, 88 percent have lost confidence that working within NHS dentistry will offer a fair level of remuneration, with 76 percent believing their patients are likely to be unhappy with the outcome of attending an NHS dental practice.

Professor Nairn Wilson, former president of the General Dental Council and British Dental Association, told Dentistry.co.uk: "It is sad that public perception of the dental profession is negatively influenced by the ways in which contract restrictions adversely affect the care the dental team can provide to NHS patients."

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