Summary The NHS is implementing a new payment system and dentists are not happy about it. This could mean many dentists leave the NHS.

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Its been in all the papers recently - NHS dentists are in a furore because of changes to the payment system, and a result, many are not signing up for a new NHS contract. It is not yet known how many dentists opted out, but the Daily Mail discovered that ( personal secured loans ) only a few days before the deadline, 7 out of 10 dentists had either not signed, or had signed on a temporary basis pending an appeal. If the appeals do not come to a satisfactory conclusion for the dentists, they could all give up on the NHS and go private in July, and theres nothing the government can do to stop them. (health insurance)

The problem stems from the fact that dentists do not feel that they were given enough time to consider the changes that the NHS has put through, and they also ( car insurance policy ) disagree with the changes themselves. The deadline came too quickly for many dentists to weigh up the pros and cons, and this is why so many are now only on a temporary contract with the NHS.

The changes themselves are quite significant - instead of a lengthy ( online car insurance ) list of separate charges amounting to about 400, the NHS has decided to have just three separate charges which encompass all the different types of work. This is how dental work will now be charged on the NHS:

• A basic check-up will cost £15.50 (cheap loans)

• A basic check-up plus fillings will cost £42.20. The charge will be the same whether its for one or more fillings.

• More complicated work such as a bridge or crown will be charged at a ( mortgages ) flat rate of £189.00. This charge will cover all the work needed at that time, even if a number of problems need to be addressed. (car insurance quotes)

Dentists are opposed to these new charges, specifically the charge relating ( cheap mortgages ) to more serious work. They feel that patients will hang back and wait until they need more than one set of treatment so as to minimise the costs at the dentist, meanwhile any problems relating to tooth decay will worsen. "Im concerned that many patients will wait until they need multiple treatments to try to get value for money", said Dr Anthony Halperin from the Patients Association.

At the moment it is looking like a significant number of NHS patients will have to go private instead. This will mean higher charges, and it will also mean having to sign up for a dentist again as a private patient. Dentists have noticeably been picking and choosing their patients more in recent years, looking to those who either have money to spare or who have insurance to cover all their dental costs.

Now would be a good time to look into the options to help you get onto a private dentists list, and to help pay for future dental work. (medical insurance)

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