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Originally Posted by Torqueofthedevil
I think you're missing the point. It's not just about raw pay, it's about the whole deal, crucially pension. And the point about being able to find a private dentist but not an NHS one simply doesn't stand up to scrutiny - the same is true across a wide range of society, such as housing, education, policing, and all sorts of other things.
Let's hope Edward will reply shortly to check I have understood properly!
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Absolutely correct. Whenever the press ran an article on dentists' pay it was always negative. Many years ago I had patients who believed a press article that dentists were on £200k salaries. The useless scribes had confused EBITDA with net income. I knew a garage owner in Aboyne back in 1980 whose gross was £250k from petrol. He needed a new petrol pump, and decided it made more sense for him to stop serving petrol since his margins were too thin to justify buying a new pump. My NHS pension will be about £500/year because I abandoned the NHS in 1980 to go and work for Shell Expro in Aberdeen. I was told , we want you to do good dentistry (amongst other useful requirements for them). I found that working hard but properly, the NHS income we claimed was 1/3 of what was needed for me to earn £17k, which was a good salary then, and that Shell made up the difference while providing premises, staff, materials and repairs. Fast forwards to today, and dentists make the NHS contract work by working fast...and I mean fast.
Those who manage get to 65, most run for the hills, since they get a very nice pension and are burned out. I could go on, but not sure if it's appropriate in this thread?