It is so uneconomic for dentists to treat NHS patients, they're handing back funds provided for that work, preferring to focus on the better paid (more profitable) private work.

Of course, Dentists are businesses & this is a rational decision, but also emphasises how the privatisation of health provision plays out.

Rationing availability of NHS work also (again rationally) feeds into dentists preferred private work.

Dentistry needs urgent reform!

#NHS #dentistry
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpqwwvnp7z8o