BDA Slams Darling dental cuts
Alistair Darling has suggested there should be a pay freeze for 40,000 senior public servants and has already written to salary review bodies to begin this change.
The chancellor’s proposals are most likely to affect the likes of judges, senior NHS managers and GPs. Also around 700,000 middle ranked public servants’, including dentists, wage rises will be reduced to somewhere between 0 and 1 per cent.
Dentistry.co.uk reported John Milne, chair of the British Dental Association’s General Dental Practice Committee (GDPC), saying that the GDPC appreciated the need for financial restraint and recognised that economic prudence was essential.
However, Mr Milne felt that the government should remember that NHS dentists were often personally responsible for providing equipment, staff and premises which were necessary to treat the millions of people that access dental healthcare.
Mr Darling’s for proposals for 2010/11 will be less than the existing level of inflation which stands 1.8 per cent.
Representatives from across the public sector have criticised the plans, but tough realistic solutions on pay are being favoured by the government.
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