Dozens Of U.K. Dental Practices To Close Amid Staff Shortages
One of the U.K.’s biggest private dental providers will close, merge or sell85 of its branches after struggling to recruit enough dentists.
This is nearly a fifth of the firm — Bupa’s — practices, and represents a significant blow to an already-struggling sector. The British Dental Association says the mass closures could leave 500,000 patients without access to care. They are also expected to affect around 1,200 staff.
The organisation warned they are “just the tip of the iceberg” for a service “built on sand.”
BUPA blamed an inability to recruit enough dentists for its National Health Service (NHS) work for the closures, as well as the increasing cost of running practices as energy prices have soared.
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