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| camelot |
Posted - 16/10/2007 : 14:39:05
Is this privatising propaganda or true?
English 'pull own teeth' as dental service decays
LONDON (AFP) - Falling numbers of state dentists in England has led to some people taking extreme measures, including extracting their own teeth, according to a new study released Monday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071015/wl_uk_afp/britainhealthdentists |
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| Fluffy Sheep |
Posted - 19/10/2007 : 20:16:05
OK, we have a dire shortage of NHS dentists in the UK as so many have chosen to go private. A friend of mine who gave up nursing to be a dental assistant worked for a great team of NHS dentists who went private. Why? because so many clients didn`t keep appointments, apparently. |
| FUBAR |
Posted - 17/10/2007 : 10:25:01
quote:
Originally posted by gcrkfrd
I was waiting to see Dentist, in Grove,Oklahoma. In the Dentists Office, were an English Couple from Kent. They were on vacation, in America, and while here, She was getting, a full set of dentures, and he was getting a Lower. He told me, that every Two or Three Years, they come here for Dental work. Later, the Receptionist told me, that they have many Patients from Great Britain.
IN Oklahoma??? In Grove???
http://www.groveok.org/
Grove Chamber of Commerce
Gosh......... |
| camelot |
Posted - 17/10/2007 : 03:47:51
Well reguardless of who is at fault it seems to me that people are suffering needlessly. I know, I know, whats new?....but we are all aware that health care is essential to the survival of us. All of us! I get really irritated when the political right and left argue economic points when the the suffering is real and the cost is insignificant to what we spend on war...at least in the USA.
On a lighter note (almost), here's another "do it youself" method for pain relief. Got nails??
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071016/hl_nm/acupuncture_pain_dc |
| Miriam Binder |
Posted - 17/10/2007 : 00:14:16
quote:
Originally posted by Daveb
But good old labour should have reversed the process and sacked all managers.
R.I.P. Beven (NHS)
It certainly would have been one way of going about it. Except that, as LTNS continuously points out, this is not good old Labour but a reformed Labour, a right of left Labour, a Labour that had re-invented itself after years of being unsuccessful (in regaining the power it had lost). |
| Daveb |
Posted - 16/10/2007 : 20:38:31
But good old labour should have reversed the process and sacked all managers.
R.I.P. Beven (NHS) |
| Miriam Binder |
Posted - 16/10/2007 : 18:09:39
quote:
Originally posted by long time no see
Yes, also
many now fly to Spain for Dental Work to be done,
sadly New Labour had 10 years but failed big time.
Reforms in the NHS started long before New Labour took over control of the government. |
| long time no see |
Posted - 16/10/2007 : 17:27:28
Yes, also
many now fly to Spain for Dental Work to be done,
sadly New Labour had 10 years but failed big time. |
| gcrkfrd |
Posted - 16/10/2007 : 16:28:29
I was waiting to see Dentist, in Grove,Oklahoma. In the Dentists Office, were an English Couple from Kent. They were on vacation, in America, and while here, She was getting, a full set of dentures, and he was getting a Lower. He told me, that every Two or Three Years, they come here for Dental work. Later, the Receptionist told me, that they have many Patients from Great Britain. |
| long time no see |
Posted - 16/10/2007 : 15:07:42
http://livewire.forumco.com/topic~TOPIC_ID~426~whichpage~4.asp
No sadly
with this Current New Labour power
running the UK health Hospitals in a state
and Do It Yourself Dental
work, it is True. |
| nightowl |
Posted - 16/10/2007 : 15:05:55
Sadly true, NHS dentists are as rare as hens teeth....
http://www.dentalfearcentral.org/diy_dentistry.html |
