OFT Right to Smile campaign
OFT Right to Smile campaign
OFT Right to Smile campaign
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The reality – as the <strong>OFT</strong>’s own research has confirmed – is that most patients are very happy with their dentists<br />
and the quality of information that their dentists give them. The early signs are that this is being confirmed by<br />
what the CQC Inspec<strong>to</strong>rs are finding when talking <strong>to</strong> patients during their visits <strong>to</strong> dental practices up and down<br />
the country.<br />
Many patients make a conscious decision <strong>to</strong> seek their treatment privately from the dentist of their choice and it<br />
does not follow from this that they have been somehow deprived of NHS treatment. And in <strong>to</strong>day’s ‘mixed<br />
economy’ of dental health provision, it is misleading <strong>to</strong> suggest <strong>to</strong> patients that they either have ‘an NHS dentist’<br />
or ‘a private dentist’.<br />
Dental Protection has published an Interim Position Statement for its members, which supports much of what the<br />
<strong>OFT</strong>‟s “<strong>Right</strong> <strong>to</strong> <strong>Smile</strong>” <strong>campaign</strong> is seeking <strong>to</strong> achieve, while also highlighting the practical difficulties and risks of<br />
some aspects of what the <strong>OFT</strong> has been calling for.<br />
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Media contact<br />
David Croser<br />
Dental Protection<br />
33 Cavendish Square<br />
London W1G 0PS<br />
T: 020 7399 1339 E: david.croser@mps.org.uk.<br />
Notes for Edi<strong>to</strong>rs<br />
1. Dental Protection Limited (DPL) is an au<strong>to</strong>nomous but wholly owned subsidiary of the Medical<br />
Protection Society (MPS), the world‟s leading professional indemnity organisation for doc<strong>to</strong>rs, dentists<br />
and other healthcare professionals. Dental Protection has over 60,000 dental members in 70 countries<br />
around the globe and it is the only UK based protection organisation <strong>to</strong> have this international scope. In<br />
the UK, 70% of dentists are members.<br />
2. MPS is not an insurance company. All benefits of membership are discretionary as set out in the<br />
Memorandum and Articles of Association.<br />
3. Dental Protection‟s Interim position statement can be found here<br />
http://www.dentalprotection.org/uk/news/positionstatements<br />
4. Details of the Office of fair Trading „<strong>Right</strong> <strong>to</strong> <strong>Smile</strong>‟ <strong>campaign</strong> can be found here<br />
http://www.oft.gov.uk/<strong>OFT</strong>work/consumer-protection/<strong>campaign</strong>11-<br />
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