17 Sep
12:07pm, 17 Sep 2024
69,805 posts
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LindsD
Yeah, we are about to move out of our dentist's area and I fear we won't get another.
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17 Sep
12:16pm, 17 Sep 2024
23,077 posts
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rf_fozzy
I'd like to welcome the rest of the UK to the situation in Leeds regarding dentists that we've had for about 5years now. Dentists will take new NHS patients, but it's a 3 year waiting list. |
17 Sep
12:27pm, 17 Sep 2024
9,424 posts
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Pothunter
Our dentist wouldn’t take us as NHS patients more than 10 years ago. Kids are listed as NHS but we aren’t. Don’t know what will happen we the kids hit 18… (South East London) |
17 Sep
12:41pm, 17 Sep 2024
46,153 posts
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SPR
I think the dentist thing has been going on for a while maybe getting worse and of course you pay for NHS treatment. I remember more than 15 years ago having to move dentist after an injury because they would do my emergency treatment but weren't taking new NHS patients and I was no longer a patient there due to not going for a while. I ended up back there again when they reversed that decision though. I imagine central Birmingham might be one of the best places for NHS dentists but haven't checked. |
17 Sep
12:43pm, 17 Sep 2024
25,621 posts
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larkim
I suspect my NHS dentist enrolment lapsed during Covid or just before so I'm probably in the same boat. Though it says something about my approach to mouth healthcare that I've not been in a dentist's chair for over 5 years now. Probably should sort that out...
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17 Sep
12:44pm, 17 Sep 2024
6,467 posts
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paulcook
I thought this started early 2000s, either first or second Blair government, and the lure of private practices, has degraded the offer since. My dentist I had since I was a child went private long, long ago but since my mum paid I never moved. But when I moved from Bradford to Darlington I didn't get another dentist until I had an accident on my bike and needed treatment. There was next to no practices to choose from and the one I did went private just before Covid so I stopped going again. |
17 Sep
12:52pm, 17 Sep 2024
32,799 posts
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macca 53
TROSaracen wrote: Sorry, but Keir does look like a grubby little grifter on this. A rack full of suits, more pairs of specs than you could possibly need and a few dresses for the Mrs. Things he could easily afford himself. Of course there’s quid pro quo - the No 10 all access pass, and what else? It probably isn’t that bad, and hopefully he’ll rein it in from now, but I just hoped he’d be better. Give the right this sort of open goal and they’ll take it. Seen ‘Six suits Starmer’, ‘Free gear Keir’ doing the rounds, not to mention YT clips of him performatively moralising at PMQ’s on this sort of thing. It percolates out, will be used and has an impact. Exactly - they like to paint themselves as “serving the people”, so why don’t they prove it by signing up to the Civil Service code of conduct. Accepting any “gift” is a dismissal offence |
17 Sep
1:06pm, 17 Sep 2024
11,665 posts
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Fields
LindsD wrote: Yeah, we are about to move out of our dentist's area and I fear we won't get another. I moved out of the area of my NHS dentist and still travel back upcountry for checkups. There are none in the peninsula basically |
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17 Sep
1:08pm, 17 Sep 2024
11,666 posts
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Fields
On the Starmer clothing thing, politicians always like to mention they are public servants. actual public servants, the ones who do the work, would probably lose their job over this sort of thing. |
17 Sep
1:21pm, 17 Sep 2024
28,343 posts
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TROSaracen
I remember taking Anti Corruption and Bribery training annually at work. Felt utterly pointless as I was in a role where I never got offered anything, but it was still mandatory. You had to pass a quiz at the end, on what was a bribe and what to do/who to report it to etc. You could skip the actual training but pass by using ‘common sense’ in the quiz. It was obvious what felt ‘wrong’. Judging accepting a rack of suits etc would have been one of the blatantly obvious ‘do not accept - report to Ethics’ choices. Ditto boxes/hospitality at Arsenal. He’s currently trying to brazen it out, Boris style, but if momentum starts building he may have to row back. |
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