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| Tuesday, 30 August 2005 11:29 | | BNN: British Nursing News Online · www.bnn-online.co.uk
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Scotland’s chief dental officer, Ray Watkins, has held “constructive” talks with Dundee University staff after it emerged that the university was offering prospective dental students £2,000 to postpone their enrolment due to a shortage of available places.
The cash offer provoked an angry response from politicians and members of the public at a time when Scotland is suffering from a severe shortage of NHS dentists.
Mr Watkins said: “Last week the Deputy Health Minister highlighted the fact that our priority is not just on getting more students through our dental schools, but on making sure that we get more dentists committed to the NHS at the end of their training.
“Today I have had a very constructive meeting. I shall now feedback to ministers and they will respond fully in due course.”
The school, one of only two in Scotland, was left oversubscribed after the number of applications rose by 40 per cent this year.
The SNP’s Richard Lochhead said in The Times that the Executive should fund extra training places. “The hundreds of thousands of Scots who are not registered with a dentist will be wanting as many new dentists trained up as soon as possible.”
“The chief dental officer should go back to his political masters and demand resources to plug the funding gap that will allow our dental schools to take on more students.”
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