NHS: Idiot dentist policies have real world consequences
Rattus has heard that National Health dentists in Wales are giving up and going private in droves.
In Wales, you no longer choose your National Health dentist, there is one chosen for you.
This means that a good dentist who has given sterling service to a practice over 40 years loses the patients they know and love.
It also means that any patient seeing a new dentist has to provide lots of information that their usual dentist already has and that the dental surgeon has to make a thorough examination rather than just do what is necessary. This is a complete waste of time.
I think Welsh Government are trying to kill off National Health Dentistry completely so everyone has to go private.
This actually puts an extra burden on our health service as a significant number of patients are admitted to hospital with acute dental problems and probably sepsis and a generation of children suffer from bad teeth.
Rattus is delighted that it doesn't apply to patients who see National Health dentists in England - yet?
Can we at the Senedd election next year choose people who can understand that idiot policies have consequences or shall we just have a vote on getting rid of the Senedd.
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