Just been reading this document on the train.
I’m amazed at the scope and depth of regulation that is proposed.
It is quite a few years since I predicted “The Financial Services Act for Dentists” and yet here we are.
Bottle half-empty?
“Oh my God, we can never do all that and stay profitable.”
Bottle half-full?
“This will be the best imposed management consultancy that dentistry could have wished for.”
What does concern me most of all is:

• the need to provide the dentist that the patient asks for – what will the retailers and corporates do?
• the need to provide much fuller, clearer and deeper explanations of treatment planning options – where will the time come from?
• no apparent account taken of the need to market for dental services in a way that generates interest

Software developers take note – a massive opportunity to standardise protocols.
Practice owners take note – you need to invest time in this NOW.