BDA rep slams plans for dental pay freeze
A Big wig from the British Dental Association has criticised government plans to freeze the pay of NHS dental staff.
Dr John Milne, chair of the association’s (BDA) General Dental Practice Committee, also claimed that the plans would undermine NHS dentistry and the confidence of general dental practitioners (GDP).
He said that GDPs bore the brunt of costs so that they could provide care and added these costs were soaring because of the state of the economy.
Claiming that the plans are also likely to undermine the Steele Review process, which was established to improve dentistry in Britain, Dr Milne asserted that the plans had also failed to address the problem of dentists’ expenses and had ignored the review body’s recommendations.
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