NHS funding for dental undergraduate human disease teaching in the UK: a 20 year review

Atkin, Philip A. and Jones, Benjamin A. 2022. NHS funding for dental undergraduate human disease teaching in the UK: a 20 year review. British Dental Journal 233 , pp. 675-678. 10.1038/s41415-022-5099-4

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Abstract

Introduction This study identifies funding of NHS services supporting dental students' teaching over the last 20 years, focusing on human disease (HD) teaching. Aims To identify NHS funding for education in UK dental schools following publication of the 1997 General Dental Council curriculum introducing specific funding for HD teaching and the years 2015/16 to 2019/20. Material and methods Searches of the medical literature, grey literature (government and regulatory authority reports, legislative articles) and freedom of information requests to hospitals helping to deliver teaching. Results There are few publications describing current funding of dental undergraduate teaching. Freedom of information requests gave data for NHS hospital allocations for teaching both clinical dentistry and HD. HD funding has dropped by £2 million in five years. Conclusions NHS Trusts linked to dental schools receive monies to deliver teaching and offset costs of accommodating students. Tracking these funds over 20 years has seen some schools lose up to £1 million of HD funding and some lose it all. Greater transparency regarding funding for HD delivery would help improve teaching. Increasing numbers of older patients, with a greater chronic disease burden who are retaining teeth into later life, need graduating dentists with good medical knowledge to deliver safe care.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	Dentistry
Publisher:	British Dental Association
ISSN:	1476-5373
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	8 July 2022
Date of Acceptance:	8 June 2022
Last Modified:	21 May 2023 22:09
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/151180

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