#emergency-dental-care

#emergency-dental-care

The changes, which will be introduced from April next year, will include dentists being incentivised to provide emergency and complex treatments through the introduction of a standardised payment package, ministers said. It is intended to address the fact that many dentists have stopped their NHS-funded work because the fees for many procedures do not cover the costs involved. The inability of millions of people across England to access NHS dental care has resulted in dental deserts and even DIY dentistry.