More than 260 dentists no longer providing services to medical card holders after leaving scheme

More than 260 dentists have dropped out of the scheme, that provides dental services to medical card holders, since the start of this year.The number of private dentists participating in the Dental Treatment Services Scheme has dropped by 16%, from 1,654 to 1,393 over the past 10 months.Irish Dental Association chief executive Fintan Hourihan said the organisation has warned the Government there is a “crisis looming large” over the matter.

“The IDA has warned the Department of Health there is a crisis looming large here. Either we sit down and talk about a managed transition to a new arrangement or you wait for complete chaos. You would like to think they would go for orderly transition but big surprise, there is nothing happening.”The IDA has held meetings with officials in the Department of Health in the past fortnight to raise its concerns.

“A new approach is needed,” Hourihan said. “The objective everyone has is to improve access for people who can’t otherwise afford access but simply replacing the current system and contract with something slightly different is not going to deal with the underlying problem. #Open journalism No news is bad news Support The Journal Your contributions will help us continue to deliver the stories that are important to youHe said it was having a “massive knock-on effect” on people who have to source other dentists and face additional waiting lists.

Not to worry , lets bring in a lot of foreign Dentists see who laughs then

Start a new charity “DENTISTS WITHOUT YACHTS”

It wouldn't do a bit of harm. Maybe they'd have to pay for their own medical treatment like the rest of us.

What’s needed is HSE fully employed dentists in primary care and allow access to them for all. For those that have no medical card charge a nominal fee (20 or 30) euro

Hardly worthy of being called a scheme. The only services available on the medical card make people’s dental health worse.

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