Dentist question...

I'm registered with an NHS dentist where my parents live, but as I'm permanently in Leeds now I want to join one here...

Now if on the NHS website it says 'will not accept any NEW NHS patients', can you transfer from one to another still?

Cheers.

 

probably not..

...dentists see better profits in private patients.</p>

Despite subsidised training.</p>

I say kneecap 'em.</p>

 

No

Your dental registration is not transferrable like your registration with a doctor.
If you change to a new dentist, it always counts as a new registration.

For now, that is. Currently about 40% of UK adults are registered with an NHS dentist. The government didn't like this figure so from April 1st, registration with NHS dentists is being abolished. Despite the date, this is not a joke and **** knows how (if) the new system is going to work.

 

RE: probably not..

I just wondered what 'no NEW NHS patients' means... as surely if it was no patients full stop it's just say 'no new patients accepted'?

Otherwise I'm fecked.

The feckers.

 

RE: No

So what system's happening instead?!

 

Tha's fecked

Unless of course you can afford to subsidise a new porsche and go private with a leeds dentists.</p>

Try a cheap flight to Poland, apparantly its snided with qualified dentists, state funded of course.</p>

Perhaps Burns is off to Warsaw 'cos he needs some attention to his gnashers and impoverished football players cant afford uk dental treatment.</p>

 

Try other dentists in the area.

There are two in Wombwell, one won't accept any NHS patients, the other will until April 1st, so search around.

 

I live in Leeds...

Would ones in Barnsley let me register?

I'm doubting it...

 

God only knows

As of April 1st, it will be your local Primary Care Trust's duty to find you an NHS dentist if you want one.
When in negotiations with our PCT we asked the practice liason person if that means under the new system we are therefore obliged to see anyone who wants to see us.  We were worried because with the patients we have, if you come in for a checkup and need any follow-up work doing - fillings etc - it is 3 months before we have a free slot. So we need an influx of new ones like a hole in the head.

The liason officer said we were only obliged to see them subject to us having clinical capacity.  We asked her what that meant and she said, well if you ain't got any free appointments you can't see them, can you?

So it appears the PCT are obliged to find you a dentist, who then has no obligation to see you.

Good luck mate.  We're all going to need it.

 

However if you want a private appointment..tomorrow ok for sir?

sorry! but it is true.

 

Thought you said

you were registered with one in Barnsley.

Does the rule about seeing a dentist once in 15 months still apply?

 

Lol

Yep just searched on the NHS website, there isn't a single one in Leeds taking people!

There are two in Barnsley but would they let me register if I live in Leeds?!

 

Try others in Leeds area.

I know someone who has just registered as an NHS patient and has an appointment in 2 weeks, so worth searching around.

 

Yep

There are no geographic limitations.  If you can find a practice taking new NHS patients, there's no reason why living in Leeds should be a problem.  I have patients from all over the place.  Loads from the East coast.

 

No

My parents don't live in Barnsley Crystal... it's miles away, and if I go home, it's only ever at weekends or holidays as I work in Leeds. I would join one in Barnsley if I was allowed...

 

RE: Try others in Leeds area.

I can't find a single one in Leeds on the NHS website, could you ask them where it is and a number? Ta!

 

our dentist is going private and if you dont want to take on the payment plan they are offering we have been told you will be able to go to any dentist where you can get an appointment as the registration system is been scrapped.

 

Ish

If your dentist is offers General Dental Services, yes.  If they are part of the (now abandoned) Personal Dental Services pilot scheme, no.  As of April 1st, there is no registration so no.

I hope that clears it up.

 

No it isn't.

We don't take on private patients either.

 

So is there no point me registering with one now?

I might as well just ring one up when I need to go!