Overview
- To establish the basis on which NHS Dental Practices, including
professional standards and legislation and annual contract and
payments.
- To identify suitable practices for purchas e and extending.
- To establish professional standards and recruitment protocols for
non UK Dentists.
- The client was intent on purchasing and operating up to two
hundred NHS Dental practices within three years.
CPA’s Approach
- To identify the UK national professional standards for Dentists
registered to practice in the UK.
- Clarifying with eth General Medical Council the UK registration
requirements for both UK and non UK trained Dentists.
- Identifying all registered Dental Practices in each Primary Care
Trust in the Leeds, Bradford, York Rotherham and Scunthorpe
areas.
- Determining which Dental practices were for sale.
- Inspecting each practice which was for sale, establishing their
trading accounts, NHS contracts – payments, patient lists and
expansion potential
- Establishing the normal cost basis for each key activity and
determining the normal and projected profit base and investment
needs.
- Setting up recruitment activities for non UK Dentists
Findings
- There was a national shortage of UK trained and registered Dentist
resulting in a shortage of Dental Practices.
- Non UK Dentists could, if carefully selected practice in the UK,
- The proposed new NHS Dental contracts (April 2006) were causing
concern and an increasing number of NHS Dentists were “going
private”.
- Primary Care Trusts wanted to either replace and / or expand the
number of NHS Dental practice (subject to central funding).
- A reasonably organised NHS Dental practice could operates in
profit at a rate of between £20 - £40 k per chair.
- The existing UK law under which only Dentists can profit from
dental work is likely to change (April 2006) to allow private
companies to employ Dentists and to hold dental contracts
Outcomes
- The first four Dental practices have been purchased and existing
dental contracts continue.
- Overseas Dentists are now being recruited, registered and placed
into the practices.
- Expansion proposals are / have now been submitted to the Primary
Care Trusts.
- An operating company has now been established.
- Permanent “contract” staff are now in place.
- The new company can now purchase more NHS Dental practices
and expand using to advantage economy of scale.
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