Bupa Dental Care Shuts 85 Clinics Amid Staff Scarcities

85 clinics will be shut, acquired, or merged over the course of 2023 according to Bupa Dental Care, a source of both NHS and private healthcare.

Bupa has struggled to find available dentists to work in their clinics and provide NHS services for a very long time. For some of their locations, this problem has been ongoing for multiple years.

The NHS contract arrangement, as well as the rising demand and intricacy of oral treatments following the recent pandemic, have all contributed to England’s dental professional scarcities.

1,200 employees, over 10% of Bupa’s staff, are predicted to be impacted by the changes. Bupa stated that it will reassign impacted employees to other departments within the company whenever feasible.

GM of Bupa, Mark Allan, expressed that “despite continued efforts, the dental industry is facing a number of significant and systemic challenges that are placing additional pressure on providing patient care, in particular recruiting dentists to deliver NHS dental care.”

For now, all of Bupa’s dental clinics will continue to operate as normal.

According to the British Dental Association, if the UK administration and opposition do not present an explicit strategy to improve and finance NHS dentistry, the service is “approaching the end of the road.”

The Department of Health explained that last year an additional £50 million was added to the budget and that increasing access to the NHS was a key goal.

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