dentists should expect a job for life, and what the relevance of entering the NHS is post-training, when the proportion of private to NHS practice is at a high.
I approach this one with my taxpayer hat on. The taxpayer partially funds the training of dentists. What a waste of money if their skills then go to rot! What a waste of human endeavour! The VT system needs to be overhauled for next year as the system has clearly not worked satisfactorily this (academic) year.
Some might say that part of the problem is that we now have too many dentists. I am not so sure about that. Remember, only approximately 50% of adults regularly go to the dentist, and in some of the places I work, I can tell you for sure, caries and periodontal disease are rife. It is more to do with a limited budget for dentistry and the inability of dentists to respond to market forces to deal with demand, removed in 2006.
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