Comments on: What is a UDA

By: Dentist2b

Dentist2b — Sun, 23 May 2010 23:04:02 +0000

The NHS’s new contract is a joke, it’s only a matter of time before it all breaks down to chaos. I always wanted to come work in UK when I graduate from dental school, but seeing how this is progressing I’m having second thoughts. Oh, well.

I have a question to ZOITA: Couldn’t you just label each filling, extraction etc as an OWN TREATMENT and thus be paid for each and every thing you did? I mean you could schedule each extraction at different dates and label them each as a separate treatment?

By: admin

admin — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 19:26:09 +0000

Where is the incentive to do all that work for so little reward?

By: zoita

zoita — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 19:14:49 +0000

I am actually a dentist , one of the ” imported ones” and i work for NHS…i had a patient who needed 20 fillings, 4 root canals treatments and 2 extractions,,the amount of work took me 4 months with long appointments to be finished. At the end i have been paid 3 udas, equivalent to 28 pounds..so for eatch item just over 1 pound..i wonder if any decent professional would accept in a ” high living standards” country as UK to be paid like that..NHS system is a disgrace..

By: Gastaroll

Gastaroll — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 07:54:17 +0000

Well guys, it’s always been insulting to me (as being a foreigner) when someone says “imported overseas trained dentists”. I do not see any difference if the dentist is local or not. It a a problem for UK that local dentist choose to go to Australia (because of the bad climate in UK) or somewhere else and choose NOT to work in here.
Dentists are generally underpaid I agree, but this doesn’t mean we should blame the foreigners.
I also understand that EU is not very popular in Great Britain, but is it a fact. British dentists go somewhere out of Britain and other EU citizens come here. At the end is all about patients good.
I’m sure nobody wants to follow USA dentist health system.

By: RICHARD

RICHARD — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 22:10:39 +0000

Well Mark are you exposed to Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C or HIV in your job…..Dentists are definitely underpaid and the public should have more respect for them.

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:31:13 +0000

Well Mark maybe you should pay back the cost of your education to! oh yes and the Bankers, accountants, Lawyers, Entreperneurs, not forgetting the politicians. Of course dentists pay for their education they pay TAX like all of us! second thoughts perhaps you should be asking for a refund as your education was obviously flawed or at least lacking!

Dentists are under paid and undervalued, unless you are in pain when you expect immediate treatment! if we continue to pay them through this flawed UDA system only the good ones will only work privately and NHS customers will be reliant on imported overseas trained denitists, after all as with most things in life “you get what you pay for”

Oh and before you ask! no I am not a dentist or even in the industry! I am just a patient, my last word is clean you teeth and value them!

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:54:57 +0000

How about we let Dentists pick up the whole tab for their training if they are not going to work positively with the NHS?

By: hilde

hilde — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:16:26 +0000

Well at least now I fully understand why I always go back to my home country when I need to see a dentist! This is absolutely ridiculous.