'WORRYING' | Checks on foreign dentists SCRAPPED as government tries to 'plug leaky bucket' in NHS

[@CNoone-mc8dn]

Don’t blame the ageing population who have always paid in for nhs treatment including dentists, it’s because there are millions more people arriving in the country! That’s why everything is falling behind, the queue is too long!

[@lozzy2587]

God help this country 😞

[@sh.4409]

I bet we will have hundreds of Nigerians coming in pretending to be dentists like the nurses. I’m being racist when it comes to my health. It’s going to make a lot more.

[@lindark28]

To true 👍

[@chewie8]

What the hell is wrong with the government??

[@GlennMantle]

Christine Keela.....And err....her arse

[@davidmiller4078]

They been indoctrinated to cultural marxism years ago and now they are islamo marxist s They actualy resent what white christian eropean democratic capitalism has achieved and buit up over the centuries ? Now they seem determined to give our freedoms away to demogathics who actually hate us but just want what we have ? Its foolish its corrupt but they want you to go mad ? SO DONT RELAX REGROUP ORGANISE FIGHT BACK for the sake of our Grand Children ! Good luck amigo

[@hilary.teanti]

@chewie8 - Oohh let's see . . . how much time do we all have spare to answer that one ?!

[@sh.4409]

It’s not English.

[@stevenpyne1994]

@@johnkitching2248 Unfortunately, since the days of Thatcher, the British electorate -- and most other Western nations -- have voted for "laissez-faire"" government: less taxes, less "red-tape", less interference (but, of course, more rules for those folk who require state assistance). You have got what you wanted.

[@sh.4409]

If anything there should be more checks. Why aren’t we training our own?

[@danielward7008]

It takes money, time and effort to train our own. Government is going for the sticking plaster solution as per usual.

[@sh.4409]

I worked in a care home where a man went to the dentist and came out a vegetable!

[@martynblackburn9632]

Why are we importing mangos? Can't we grow our own?

[@sh.4409]

This is about dentists not fruit….that also need different climates numb nuts.

[@sh.4409]

What has fruit which needs to be grown in different climates have to do with dentists?

[@Tone767]

Well i can't see sunak finding any dentists on the boats anytime soon, but we'll still be sick to the teeth, of watching them coming in, no checks yer say, Exactly,

[@BigBenn2014]

Is dropping standards/scrutiny really their only option? Can’t they require new dentists to do six months under supervision?

[@ykan927]

They will work under supervision for probablu more than six months. It was stated in the documents

[@mollydunk8387]

My foreign dentist has just been struck off, she caused injuries to some patients, over prescribed drugs and tried to cover it up when she got caught.

[@tawz7988]

What medication was it?😮

[@SavannahK0]

This is why I will never go anywhere near a NHS dentist. Standards are absolutely disgraceful.

[@FDFnetto]

Same here. You can't put a price on your health and when it comes to dentistry, you get what you pay for.

[@GlennMantle]

And Oblama care?

[@SavannahK0]

​@FDFstaff I've always gone private. Parents always took me to a private practice when I was a child. Now I'm an adult and responsible for my own dental care only private will do for me. Those NHS dentists are vile.

[@GlennMantle]

Sounds sensable.

[@FDFnetto]

@SavannahK0 Same. When I want an appointment, I'm given one. I know someone who has just got accepted at an NHS dentist and have been told they can't get their first appointment for a check up for 8 months. 😏

[@JaneAbbasvand]

Free education for British/home students at dentistry universities.

[@bertibear1300]

Same thing in pharmacy, the exam was made easy for immigrants from non European countries so standards are poor now.I saw a woman hospitalised because of this.Nobody cares.Also we have to do a bit of study every year and this year it took me 2 hrs.Thats it. Now they want to make pharmacists into Drs.God help us.

[@sh.4409]

Nigerians making dentists certificates as well as nurses as we speak.

[@Starmerispureevil]

All have freshly printed “degrees” in “Deenistry from the Unvistity of Oxfrod”

[@Lindy-ht8cr]

Yet again the "aging problem" are causing the lack of dental appointments without addressing the elephant in the room which would be politically incorrect!!

[@emmahowells8334]

I'm lucky i have a great NHS dentist, but i do feel bad for those who don't but this isn't the best way to solve this issue to have dentist that aren't fully qualified to just fill spaces for patients. its not aging population or sugar consumption, we all know tne real reason why demand is high and its not just cause of brits.

[@TwistedTiara]

Having nearly 1M immigrants, both legal and illegal, in the country does not help with this nor Doctors' surgeries either, it's not friggin rocket science. I'm 55 and paid into the system all my life, I'm at the start of being the aging population, don't you friggin dare blame me for the state of this.

[@leonardgibney2997]

At one time both my GP and dental surgeries were staffed by white British. Now they're almost totally staffed by South Asians. Still I'm grateful to have the facilities.

[@chieftandriver703]

We were told all those guys on dinghies were Doctors and engineers It turns out they were dentists

[@Skirtis81]

Just a general observation Anyone else noticed the HUGE number of Indians that have and are arriving over the past year. You can tell the new arrivals, as even people born here of Indian descent can spot them a mile off. Not to mention the Chinese.

[@martynblackburn9632]

Bloody forins taking our jobs and our women!

[@rozdoyle8872]

Why dont the Gov allow Funeral Directors to double job and sort out the teeth of future corpses? I have dentures because of a crap dentist in East End in the 90s or was he even a Dentist I ask myself ?

[@Kristina-cw2do]

Worry : paying for care that is of no quality

[@shelleyphilcox4743]

This is very, very bad. Everyone in practice must reach professional skill and ethics standards of the UK, to make sure they deliver appropriate safe care, and those coming from overseas should not be able to avoid the same standards and tests domestically trained dentists have to meet. We train people from all over the world in our universities and thrpugh professional training in the NHS to be dentists and they all sit the same standard degrees, professional training and CPD before going into practice!

[@Deedra_]

New York too !! It is bad

[@colinlawless5654]

Checks should be tightened. You can see standards on the floor everywhere, especially in health. I have zero confidence in the NHS and who works in it. When they strike, it sends out volumes on the quality of people now working in it.

[@avagrego3195]

Lucky you,

[@esperanzabatistamatos5192]

I am absolutely disregarded with this dentist!! I think that he use as a excuse because the dentists who are working here are not interested in another dentist coming to working here.in another's countries if you have 5 years programme in your european university , and you have been working for 3 years you receive your full registration or if you have 5 years degree for any part of the world and you have granted with homologation in any EU country and have been working 3 years you will receive your bully registration.

[@mohamad4609]

Don't you dare the last foreign dentist was a butcher,was fiddling the books,then done a runner with all the money including mine, If I get murdered my whole bag of dental stuff was handled to me no explanation for it then they scarpered 🐍

[@avrilcrisp5725]

This so wrong. Dentists are using invasive procedures so do need to have the relevant standard of the UK dentists so need to take a British examination to check their credentials not just bring a certificate as proof. How many times has there been reports of medics falsifying their qualifications.

[@ManikJoshi-p7u]

Entrance exams are not training. Unless foreign-trained dentists go to college in the UK. What training is given when they appear for entrance exams?>>> Take a dentist only with 10 + years of experience without taking the entrance exams.

[@ManikJoshi-p7u]

Take a dentist who has gone to university/ college in English speaking country eg a foreign dentist who actually did dentistry again in English speaking country .

[@esperanzabatistamatos5192]

People like telling not the truth!!!

[@oldshiny3012]

Ah Dentistry on the cheap, with more immigration

[@Pokerface-123]

In fact my husband studied pg in queen mary college and couldn’t practice

[@craigriley8317]

Goverment health care is appauling

[@wgj4813]

If it was felt necessary to have an exam for foreign dentist how come they were all capable before. Were there never any failures?

[@roseguber3240]

Fake exams..now they cannot even be bothered anymore..

[@meenakshiv7849]

absolutely true its been 5 years wait for me and many of us .@@colinfernandes9552

[@davidc4408]

We need more dental schools.

[@esperanzabatistamatos5192]

That Dr is not honest because this mot European dentist already has a good standard and also a lot of them have recognition in different EU countries and a lot of training, this Fr is only thinking about...

[@misfit2022]

“Is it safe?” Not the words you want to hear from a dentist 😉

[@karl5395]

Vote Reform

[@carolynkernan939]

Mexico Columbia hv good dentists

[@eglebarkauskaite4692]

There are many good dentists in Lithuania👍🙂

[@barrycastles5168]

What could possibly go wrong 🤔 😂

[@Bartimus543]

Good lord we will be going back to barbers pulling teeth next. Mind you there are plenty of Turkish barbers springing up all over, maybe thats the plan.

[@JaneAbbasvand]

My dentist is from Greece and she is fabulous. Perhaps dentists from Greece are better. The ones from Sweden not really and most Iranian dentists are qualified from Sweden.

[@roseguber3240]

From Sweden does not mean Swedish; they also lowered the criteria, not wanting to be seen as waycist...

[@BristolMatt]

I love the ageing population myth, It's an oldie but a good goodie.

[@HULLDUDE666]

We will all have Billy-Bob Hillbilly teeth soon, saves time buying them from the Joke shop. 😁🃏

[@Nemetona225]

🤔🤐