The technical efficiency of oral healthcare provision: Evaluating role substitution in National Health Service dental practices in England

ConclusionsThe current NHS dental contract limits the potential for efficiency improvements by setting annual practice activity targets that produce little incentive for role substitution. Whilst DCPs may by practising efficiently, this is not reflected in practice‐level efficiency, possibly because of dentists using the time released for other non‐NHS activity.
Source: Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology - Category: Dentistry Authors: Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research