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The piecemeal nature of NHS dental payments can make them confusing, make sure you’re claiming correctly, Doug Hamilton says. The treatments offered by our wonderful NHS are many and varied. In most instances care is also free at the point of delivery. One notable exception is NHS dentistry where patients are usually presented with an … Continued
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Doug Hamilton says the MDDUS can offer advice and support on many issues arising from clinical practice. In comparison to many other occupations, the life of a dentist is fairly isolated. This somewhat unsupported environment does tend to limit discussion and analysis of professional problems that, almost inevitably, will be encountered from time to time. … Continued
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Is it better to hide mistakes or ‘fess up straight away? Doug Hamilton explains. Everyone makes mistakes. That’s why keyboards have a delete button and, for readers of my vintage, why Tippex was invented (though please don’t use it to retrospectively amend hand-written clinical records). Unfortunately, dentistry provides many working examples of things that can’t … Continued
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