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Odontólogos/estatística & dados numéricos , Licenciamento em Odontologia , Organizações de Serviços Gerenciais/estatística & dados numéricos , Área de Atuação Profissional/estatística & dados numéricos , Fatores Etários , Emprego/estatística & dados numéricos , Etnicidade/estatística & dados numéricos , Feminino , Odontologia Geral/estatística & dados numéricos , Humanos , Renda/estatística & dados numéricos , Masculino , Medicaid/estatística & dados numéricos , Área Carente de Assistência Médica , Propriedade/estatística & dados numéricos , Prática Privada/estatística & dados numéricos , Corporações Profissionais/estatística & dados numéricos , Fatores Sexuais , Texas , Estados Unidos , Serviços Urbanos de Saúde/estatística & dados numéricosRESUMO
The UK government opened NHS dentistry to competition in 2006. By 2015-2016 just over three quarters of NHS contracts were held by non-corporate providers with corporate contracts, on average, having a lower £:UDA (unit of dental activity) value and higher UDA targets than non-corporate contracts. The corporate market share continues to expand through inorganic and organic growth and new financial backers are entering the arena. It is not known how these changes will affect the profession though inspiration can be drawn from overseas markets. In this article I aim to provide an overview of the dental corporate market in the USA and Australia as well as some insight as to how the sector stands in England.
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Odontologia/estatística & dados numéricos , Setor de Assistência à Saúde , Corporações Profissionais , Austrália , Contratos , Inglaterra , Governo , Setor de Assistência à Saúde/economia , Setor de Assistência à Saúde/estatística & dados numéricos , Humanos , Administração da Prática Odontológica/economia , Administração da Prática Odontológica/estatística & dados numéricos , Prática Privada/economia , Prática Privada/estatística & dados numéricos , Corporações Profissionais/economia , Corporações Profissionais/estatística & dados numéricos , Estados UnidosRESUMO
Current and future dental school graduates are increasingly likely to choose a non-traditional dental practice-a group practice managed by a dental service organization or a corporate practice with employed dentists-for their initial practice experience. In addition, the growth of non-traditional practices, which are located primarily in major urban areas, could accelerate the movement of dentists to those areas and contribute to geographic disparities in the distribution of dental services. To help the profession understand the implications of these developments, the aim of this study was to compare the location characteristics of non-traditional practices and traditional dental practices. After identifying non-traditional practices across the United States, the authors located those practices and traditional dental practices geographically by zip code. Non-traditional dental practices were found to represent about 3.1% of all dental practices, but they had a greater impact on the marketplace with almost twice the average number of staff and annual revenue. Virtually all non-traditional dental practices were located in zip codes that also had a traditional dental practice. Zip codes with non-traditional practices had significant differences from zip codes with only a traditional dental practice: the populations in areas with non-traditional practices had higher income levels and higher education and were slightly younger and proportionally more Hispanic; those practices also had a much higher likelihood of being located in a major metropolitan area. Dental educators and leaders need to understand the impact of these trends in the practice environment in order to both prepare graduates for practice and make decisions about planning for the workforce of the future.
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Odontólogos , Área de Atuação Profissional , Prática Profissional/classificação , Fatores Etários , Recursos Humanos em Odontologia , Odontólogos/estatística & dados numéricos , Competição Econômica , Escolaridade , Prática Odontológica de Grupo/estatística & dados numéricos , Hispânico ou Latino , Humanos , Renda , Organizações de Serviços Gerenciais/estatística & dados numéricos , Marketing de Serviços de Saúde , Administração da Prática Odontológica/normas , Corporações Profissionais/estatística & dados numéricos , Prática Profissional/estatística & dados numéricos , Área de Atuação Profissional/estatística & dados numéricos , População Rural , Estados Unidos , População UrbanaRESUMO
A review of the legislation and regulation impacting upon Dental Bodies Corporate. This includes consideration of the Dentists Act 1984; the GDC Rules and Regulations made there under; and current ethical guidance issued by the GDC.