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Dentists who worked to the General Dental Services (GDS) contract earned more from private work than from the NHS during 2004/05, according to new figures on dentists' earnings and


expenses published today by The Information Centre for health and social care. A study of earnings and expenses in 2004/05 revealed that, overall, dentists in Great Britain working under GDS


earned 48 per cent of their gross income from NHS work compared with 54 per cent the previous year. Dentists who are practice owners received an average annual income of €105,000, after


expenses have been deducted, from both NHS and private sources, while dentists who use facilities within another dentist's practice earned less; on average €57,000. Dentists who


practise alone earned an average of €86,000, with those that were most committed to the NHS earning €84,000 and those that were less committed earning €89,000 on average. An additional


study, for the year 2005/06, covers NHS income only. This shows the wide range of income levels from this source of work, with some dentists earning less than €5,000 from the NHS and others


earning over €300,000 (before expenses are deducted). The figures relating to GDS in both studies refer to all full-time and part-time dentists' NHS earnings, under the GDS arrangements


in operation up to 31 March, 2006. These were complex and based on a mix of fees paid for registered patients, for treatment of patients, incentive payments (such as commitment payments)


and other exceptional payments (such as maternity and long-term sickness payments). The new contract introduced on 1 April 2006 brought in a different way of paying dental practitioners for


their NHS work and a simpler system of payments, with an emphasis on encouraging more preventative work. For a copy of the report see www.ic.nhs.uk/pubs/dentalearn and


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