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Friday, September 4th, 2009Interesting piece from The Wall Street Journal Why ‘Quality’ Care Is Dangerous The growing number of rigid protocols meant to guide doctors have perverse consequences. By JEROME GROOPMAN and PAMELA HARTZBAND The Obama administration is working with Congress to mandate that all Medicare payments be tied to “quality metrics.” But an analysis of this drive [...]
Why Can’t Americans Get Health Care Right?
Thursday, August 20th, 2009Good piece from Harvard Business Review by Jim Heskett. I particularly enjoyed the reasoned and balanced opinions that follow. Read it here: hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6245.html
Oral Cancer Rates Up – but is the real truth hard to swallow?
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009There have been a lot of mentions in the media over the past 10 days that the rates of Oral Cancer have risen in individuals in their 40s. When I was a student & during my hospital career we were told that Oral & Lip Cancers were related to the “5Ss”: Smoking, Spirits, Sepsis, Sunshine [...]
Why Bother Having Expert Advisors?
Monday, August 17th, 2009A report in today’s Guardian concerning the free availability of anti-virals to treat the symptoms of swine ‘flu. Before I left for my holiday in Ireland in mid July it seemed that the population was going to succumb to this dread plague but in the nick of time Gordon and his chums had come to [...]
The Celtic Tiger loses its bite
Monday, July 20th, 200919.07.2009 Irish dentists ‘shocked’ over report’s recommendations The Irish dental community is “shocked” at the changes recommended in a report released this week by the Special Group on Public Service Numbers and Expenditure Programmes, according to the Irish Dental Association (IDA). Overall, “The Report of the Special Group on Public Service Numbers and Expenditure Programmes [...]
“Brits borrow millions for dental work”
Friday, July 10th, 2009From Dr Bicuspid’s Blog – Now please don’t tell again me that people won’t pay for Dentistry. Britons have taken out personal loans worth an estimated 60.2 million pounds ($97.6 million) to fund private dental treatment, according to a Press Association story. An analysis by Sainsbury’s Finance showed that nearly 7,000 loans have been taken [...]
“The mouth is the mirror of the body”
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009I don’t remember who first told me that but it’s something that I said to patients regularly through my clinical career. We knew that it was unusual to find unhealthy gums in a healthy individual, to add to that, anyone who couldn’t get the enthusiasm and motivation to look after their mouth was unlikely to [...]
Jimmy Steele’s Report 1) It’s out
Monday, June 22nd, 2009The report has been released today (all 88 pages of it) and will be available from the DoH website & here ASAP. Download from here. Some comments: BBC HSJ I’m afraid that this will make very little difference to the provision of NHS care. The fact remains that the provision of dentistry is expensive and the repeated [...]
Why is the NHS so?
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009I have an eye infection, I became a ware that the upper lid of my left eye was swollen on Monday evening. I rinsed it with Optrex on Monday and yesterday (Tuesday) but the lid stayed red, swollen and sore and overnight it worsened. So this morning I rang “MY” medical practice at 8.35 to [...]
The Weekend Read – The Scientific Basis of Oral Health Education
Sunday, June 14th, 2009Now in its sixth edition this slim volume by Ronnie Levine and Catherine Stillman-Lowe was released during the last couple of months. Described as “an essential document for all those involved in providing oral health education to the public” I cannot praise it enough. During my visits to dental practices and conversations with teams I [...]
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