On 2008-06-28 08:50:05 +0100, Roland Perry said:

In message 4865e53c@qaanaaq, at 08:16:12 on Sat, 28 Jun 2008, Andy
Hall remarked:
Why would I want to do NHS work at all?
You wouldn't, but not everyone is like you.
Are NHS dentists easily and universally available?
How does that affect your decision to work in the NHS?

That's something that I would never do anyway.... However, the
point here is that clearly dentists are choosing not to work in the NHS
on a very broad scale, for reasons that have been explained.

We have doctors and consultants who do, so something is clearly broken
with the funding.

It would be rather unlikely for doctors and consultants to be woolly
thinking socialists and for dentists to be hard nosed, money grabbing
*******s.

One difference that I notice is that consultants (especially the
private ones) seem to be middle-aged or older, whereas most dentists I
see are quite young.

I see a mix in both cases when I shop around.