Why is the nhs dentists (hospital ones) waiting list so long?!
Question: It`s like all other departments
Answers: It`s like all other departments
Because a lot of people (who can afford it) are too tight-fisted to go private.
I think NHS dentists should only be available to those on less than the national average wage.
Because it is stupid to try and give "free" healthcare to everyone, but that is what labour's ideology tells them to do.
Because many people in this country don't pay taxes because they would rather sit on their backsides and let good people work hard and pay taxes to give the people on their backsides money to do nothing but sit around all day watching Sky Sports, even though they are perfectly capable of working. If there were less people stealing money from the government and more people going out and actually getting a job and therefore paying taxes, the Nhs would probably be in a much better condition.
are you talking about orthodontics because these have a waiting list because there are so many people before hand wanting them. in future maybe ask before your problem is too extreme?
the waiting lists for the dental hospitals (nhs) are so long as there are not many dentists able to work at the same time in the hospitals, there may be loads of beds but if there is not enough surgeries to deal with the demand then the waiting time is increased.
the hospitals will have on average depending on the size of the hospital about 2-3 oral surgeons all working full time and about 1-2 dentists.
the hospitals main area is for surgeries that are not normally done in the private practises like where your normal dentist would be, for example teeth extracted under general anaesthetic and sedation. all other work is normally carried out by your own dentist.
waiting lists tend to also get longer when there are alot of people who do not have dentists turn up with toothache, and also when there are emergencies such as injuries caused by car crashes and other serious accidents.
the people with toothache can be people from all walks of life from the homeless to people who can afford to pay but end up being de-registered because they never kept their appointments, or just never went back for so long that the nhs automatically took them off their dentists list (after 18 months of no check-up this happens automatically by the nhs NOT the dentist).
this in turn means that people with dentists who refer you to have treatment will have to wait longer as the surgeons time is taken up with non scheduled work.
another reason can be that the surgeons will take extra time to treat each patient as the hospital could be a teaching hospital where the budding surgeons to be will have more time to ask questions about procedures, so more time is allowed between patients. so instead of working constantly seeing (for argument's sake) 20 patients per day they will see only 10.
so in an ideal world, if people kept their appointments or made sure they went for regular check-ups with their dentist, they would not be de-registered and the hospitals would have less people walking off the street with toothaches, and you would not have to wait so long for an appointment as the only thing they would be dealing with would be accidents and referred patients.