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

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 in...

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Autores principales: Atkin, Philip A., Jones, Benjamin A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9616713/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36307713
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41415-022-5099-4
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description 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. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Zusatzmaterial online: Zu diesem Beitrag sind unter 10.1038/s41415-022-5099-4 für autorisierte Leser zusätzliche Dateien abrufbar.
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spelling pubmed-96167132022-10-30 NHS funding for dental undergraduate human disease teaching in the UK: a 20-year review Atkin, Philip A. Jones, Benjamin A. Br Dent J Education 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. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Zusatzmaterial online: Zu diesem Beitrag sind unter 10.1038/s41415-022-5099-4 für autorisierte Leser zusätzliche Dateien abrufbar. Nature Publishing Group UK 2022-10-28 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC9616713/ /pubmed/36307713 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41415-022-5099-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .© The Author(s) 2022
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