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@philascough Indeed it was! 👍

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Well done City!

[David Baddiel @Baddiel]

Oasis were great tonight. But they were nearly outshone by their support, Richard Ashcroft, in incredible voice: still the Scott Walker of Britpop.

[Mykhaïlo Golub @golub]

What a shame

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First Sunday ride of the season in fabulous sunshine! 🌞

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@BronHebog @festrail Fabulous modelling! 👏

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@bbcburnsy @HullCity @The1904Club @bazdjcooper Been watching for 50 yrs, some seasons good, some poor, but have always been fascinated - my interest now being squashed by performances lacking any confidence from team destroyed by TW - though core problem was his appointment and consistently poor recruitment during Acun era.

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@nicsjourney2BDS Follow your hunch on this one Nic - I imagine you’ll be right more often than not….,

[Phil Scarborough @phsjr1]

He is the one.

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

I’m simply horrified to see @NHSEngland now literally breaking the law in how it misrepresents physician associates & other allied health professional - who are NOT doctors - to the public.

These posters are from the Bradford District & Craven Health & Care Partnership. 1/n

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What an amazing man #DrMichaelMosley was. Friendly, open, modest, highly intelligent but also a born communicator — so rare. An adult mind, a child's curiosity. He did everything with enthusiasm. We're all going to miss him so much @BBCRadio2.

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@Girlwithvoiceuk Of course we can’t find anything! We’ve spent years being handed things by dental nurses before we even realised we needed the thing! Dental nurses anticipate our needs - wives, to be honest, not so much (ducks for cover) 😎

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@briteeth @DentistGoneBadd @KarlTurnerMP Thank you for your concern @KarlTurnerMP I spent 40 yrs providing NHS dentistry - the situation is now totally unacceptable to patients and utterly untenable for dentists. The remedy is a thoroughly reformed contract, realistic expectations and sensibly increased funding.

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@DianaJohnsonMP You do very good work, your constituents are privileged to have you. I provided NHS dental care in the area for 40 years and can tell you this proposal would only help marginally. The problem is the disastrous current contractual arrangements and its grossly inadequate funding.

[Lauren Harrhy BDS PGDip @Laurenharrhy85]

Patients already pay a huge chunk towards their NHS dental care when they pay the patient charges set by the government. In some cases the patient pays more for the treatment than the government actually pay the dental practice.

Unfortunately neither amount actually makes a dent into how much it actually costs the practice to provide that treatment.

All dental practices are private businesses. The NHS contracts our services and our practices but the contract is grossly unfair & the unfairness has become worse & worse over the years.

Advancements in the technology & equipment & materials we use now, & the (entirely reasonable) expectation of patients to actually fill & save their teeth (rather than pull them all & have dentures), means that the contracts & funding fall woefully short & practices often have to use the money they make from private dentistry to subsidise the cost of providing NHS care.

What other profession would consistently pay for the cost of the patient’s care out of their own pockets?

How sustainable is that as a business model?

We have a responsibility to our patient cohort to remain a viable business who can keep up with regulations and afford to be able to use a good standard of materials and purchase and maintain safe and up to date equipment. If we don’t make money we can’t do that.

The government have abused goodwill & professionalism of a large section of the profession for too long & now we are seeing the disaster they have created.

It’s easy for governments to blame dentists; dental phobia makes us obvious hate figures

The vast majority of us want to charge appropriately for our skills & time (as would any other professional; solicitor, architect, accountant etc) so that we can pay our highly & uniquely skilled team, invest in our practices for the good of our patient base & actually (heaven forbid) make some money at the end of it. I’m hearing all too often of practice owners not being able to pay themselves.

NHS practice owners have seen, on average, approximately a 50% reduction in pay since I qualified in 2009. Any other sector would be marching in the streets! We’ve kept working, caring for our patients, trying to make it work in ever more difficult circumstances. Those who haven’t been able to make it work (as each practice set up is different for a whole host of reasons) have had to resign or reduce their NHS contracts or risk going bust. We’ve seen even dental corporations go bust or have to close practices entirely due to this chronic erosion of funding.
If they can’t make it work what hope do us independent small business owners have? We are ever on a knife edge and the pressure is tremendous.

We are called “greedy” or “thieving” or “disgusting” or “disgraceful”

We are just people who are trying to do the best we can for our patients, our staff and our families.

The pressure is sadly too much for many of my colleagues & our profession is at a much higher than average risk of suicide. For most of us there is a physical price to pay as we are all too often left with severe physical repercussions for providing the care we do, day after day, in the form of back/shoulder/hand injury, ruined hearing (from the drill noise) the list goes on.

I understand the frustration of the public. Dentistry for health is something which the government promises to provide for all who really need it.
Unfortunately we need some honesty about what they actually are willing to provide. The U.K. spends the smallest proportion of its healthcare budget of any Europe

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[Ex-DentistGoneBadd @DentistGoneBadd]

In 2008 a Government Health Select Committee condemned the 'new' NHS dental contract as 'unfit for purpose.' Let me repeat that - 2008.

Fifteen years of neglect by Tory and LibDem/Tory Governments after Labour introduced the abomination to begin with, in 2006.
@englandsteeth