Dental Practitioners

EDM number 126 in 1994-95, proposed by Frank Cook on 24/11/1994.

That this House congratulates dental practitioners for maintaining exemplary standards of professional care since the inception of the National Health Service; but notes with considerable concern that the consequences of the full implementation of Her Majesty's Government's proposals as laid out in the Green Paper, Improving NHS Dentistry, could well be the reduction in volume and throughput of general work causing immediate increases in waiting lists, all this resulting from possible adoption of the Government's preferred proposal for sessional payments, financial ruin of those dentists having a practice with high overheads and a heavy commitment to NHS clientele, widespread redundancies within ancillary staff f grades, reduction of general dental services to a bare minimum should the ring-fencing of dental funds be removed as seems likely, greatly increased pressures on dentists to adopt the course of action resisted by the vast majority of the profession to date, namely the accelerated move towards private practice, and further loss of morale throughout all grades of dental care workers, who, having coped remarkably well with the many changes introduced hitherto, are now faced with the onerous task of either introducing an invidious purchaser/provider model for remuneration or applying the untried, untested and patently flawed sessional payment scheme; and therefore urges Her Majesty's Government to allow a period of stability to elapse to permit the profession to cope more adequately with changes of the past and prepare more rationally for those of the future.

This motion has been signed by a total of 44 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Frank Cook	24/11/1994	Stockton North		Proposed
Harry Barnes	25/11/1994	North East Derbyshire		Signed
John Evans	28/11/1994	St Helens North		Signed
Jimmy Dunnachie	28/11/1994	Glasgow, Pollok		Signed
Terry Davis	28/11/1994	Birmingham, Hodge Hill		Signed
Tom Cox	28/11/1994	Tooting		Signed
Eric Clarke	28/11/1994	Midlothian		Signed
Bill Michie	28/11/1994	Sheffield, Heeley		Signed
Alan Meale	28/11/1994	Mansfield		Signed
William McKelvey	28/11/1994	Kilmarnock & Loudoun		Signed
John McAllion	28/11/1994	Dundee East		Signed
Elfyn Llwyd	28/11/1994	Meirionnydd Nant Conwy		Signed
Ernie Ross	28/11/1994	Dundee West		Signed
Colin Pickthall	28/11/1994	West Lancashire		Signed
Michael Connarty	29/11/1994	Falkirk East		Signed
Ian Davidson	29/11/1994	Glasgow, Govan		Signed
Bryan Davies	29/11/1994	Oldham Central and Royton		Signed
Margaret Ewing	29/11/1994	Moray		Signed
Gerry Steinberg	29/11/1994	Durham, City of		Signed
Gerry Sutcliffe	29/11/1994	Bradford South		Signed
David Clelland	29/11/1994	Tyne Bridge		Signed
Michael Clapham	29/11/1994	Barnsley West & Penistone		Signed
Robert Parry	29/11/1994	Liverpool, Riverside		Signed
Dennis Skinner	29/11/1994	Bolsover		Signed
John Heppell	29/11/1994	Nottingham East		Signed
Roy Hughes	29/11/1994	Newport East		Signed
Ken Livingstone	29/11/1994	Brent East		Signed
Keith Bradley	29/11/1994	Manchester, Withington		Signed
Eddie Loyden	30/11/1994	Liverpool, Garston		Signed
Richard Burden	30/11/1994	Birmingham, Northfield		Signed
Nick Ainger	30/11/1994	Pembroke		Signed
Norman Godman	01/12/1994	Greenock and Port Glasgow		Signed
Jim Dowd	01/12/1994	Lewisham West		Signed
Lawrence Cunliffe	01/12/1994	Leigh		Signed
Alan Simpson	01/12/1994	Nottingham South		Signed
Win Griffiths	05/12/1994	Bridgend		Signed
Peter Hardy	06/12/1994	Wentworth		Signed
John Gunnell	07/12/1994	Leeds South and Morley		Signed
Mike Hall	08/12/1994	Warrington South		Signed
Tommy Graham	08/12/1994	Renfrew West and Inverclyde		Signed
Allan Rogers	08/12/1994	Rhondda		Signed
Max Madden	13/12/1994	Bradford West		Signed
Martyn Jones	13/12/1994	Clwyd South West		Signed
Bill Etherington	15/12/1994	Sunderland North		Signed

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