Red tape is stopping thousands of experienced overseas dentists from treating patients in the UK, LBC can reveal.
Over 3,000 people are trying to sit an exam needed to prove they're fit to practice dentistry in the UK.But in 2024, there are only 1,200 places available on the first part of the Overseas Registration Examination.That's despite warnings the unmet need for NHS dentistry is at "an all-time high".The British Dental Association say 5.6 million adults have tried and failed to book a dentist appointment in the last 2 years in England.
But they say the practical nature of parts of the exam makes that difficult."It needs equipment, supervisors and places where that can happen, that's quite hard to set up in a hurry", the organisation's executive director Stefan Czerniawski told LBC."The difficulty isn't just can we create more places. It's can we do that at a cost that's affordable for the candidates, which we can scale up or down according to demand.
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