I used to reception an NHS urgent dental access clinic on weekends for a few years and can’t exactly say we experienced the same horror stories in the article.
We were only allowed to see 12 people a day due to timings and the dentist would always say something like “8/12 of those weren’t severe”, which was our criteria.
The criteria was large facial swellings or trauma to the mouth.
Off the top of my head, each weekend, out of the 24 expected patients, it would probably be 30 or so due to overbooking/amount of severe patients.
Genuinely didn’t see many kids, but those we did and were in need of longer treatment, we were able to refer to our own clinic (we were a specialist nhs dentistry, so could refer to the “main clinic”. Definitely never saw a child without any teeth…
Well, after all that, the contract for out of hours went to a private dentistry lol…
I know its the clicks I make makes reddit show me news like clicks I made, but fvck me this country is doomed. and its still cooking and cooking
Fucking heartbreaking, I’ve unlocked a new health fear for oral cancer to boot. I fell off my dentists radar after Covid, brb off to look under my gums and tongue 🙈
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I used to reception an NHS urgent dental access clinic on weekends for a few years and can’t exactly say we experienced the same horror stories in the article.
We were only allowed to see 12 people a day due to timings and the dentist would always say something like “8/12 of those weren’t severe”, which was our criteria.
The criteria was large facial swellings or trauma to the mouth.
Off the top of my head, each weekend, out of the 24 expected patients, it would probably be 30 or so due to overbooking/amount of severe patients.
Genuinely didn’t see many kids, but those we did and were in need of longer treatment, we were able to refer to our own clinic (we were a specialist nhs dentistry, so could refer to the “main clinic”. Definitely never saw a child without any teeth…
Well, after all that, the contract for out of hours went to a private dentistry lol…
I know its the clicks I make makes reddit show me news like clicks I made, but fvck me this country is doomed. and its still cooking and cooking
Fucking heartbreaking, I’ve unlocked a new health fear for oral cancer to boot. I fell off my dentists radar after Covid, brb off to look under my gums and tongue 🙈