Dentists trained abroad works at McDonald’s and other fast food in the United Kingdom, although millions of patients find it impossible to get NHS Dental care.
The disclosure comes in a new report sent to the deputies on Wednesday, which urges the ministers to reduce the bureau of dentists from abroad to connect the huge gaps in NHS Care Dental Care.
The main obstacle they face is to secure a place to conduct the necessary exams to work in the UK, a very difficult process that resembles some of them a ticket to see Taylor Swift.
As a result, totally qualified dentists from countries such as India, Egypt, and Albania spend months or even years at work time in fast food cafes, according to the Association of Dental Collection (ADG).
ADG, which represents the main dental service providers, called for an urgent reform to check the registration abroad, which consists of two parts (Ore) to avoid “unacceptable waste” of the skills of foreign dentists. Dentists It is qualified abroad needs to pass both parts of raw in order to enter the General Dental Council record, which then allows them to work in the United Kingdom.
“It is a shameful thing to make them turn the burgers in our fast food restaurants when they are groaning to patients,” said ADG.
“The fact that we were in ADG we were talking to dentists who had to take unimportant jobs in fast food restaurants for several months or even years after their arrival in the United Kingdom is an unacceptable waste of their skills – and taxes for patients who need to see a dentist.
))
GDC numbers show that there are 6000 qualified dentists abroad waiting for exams. But only 600 people can sit in the exam, usually organized by GDC twice a year, although the body has put additional sessions in recent months to try to treat accumulation.
Meanwhile, NHS in England had 2,749 vacancies for dentists at 2023-24 and 4.5 million people in England alone cannot currently reach dental care in NHS. About one in four of all dentists in the UK are qualified abroad, GDC data He appears.
Ahmed, a dentist trained abroad from Egypt, works in both McDonald’s and part -time as a dental nurse. He said: “Although I hold a master’s degree in postgraduate in dental implants and be a fully qualified Egyptian dentist, I am currently working in McDonald’s.”
“I am frustrated by the raw system and since 2022, I have been trying to complete GDC registration for practice here in the United Kingdom.”
“I am a fully trained dentist from India with 10 years of experience, but now I am” a sandwich artist “. Sindoucet has made a fast dining outlet in Birmingham for more than nine months.”
Syed Bilal Bukhara, another dentist from India, works in a care house and also as a dental health specialist. He added: “Once the raw places open to the regime, they disappeared in just two minutes. Two of my friends surrendered in the situation and moved to Dubai.”
“The barriers that prevent employment abroad are not the only reason that patients cannot get an appointment. Our Sent NHS system does badly attract dentists who are already working here, with many prefer to train separately,” said Mark Dayan, a Nuffield TRIST Thinktank.
“But the delay in the registration process for foreign recruits is an incomparable error, which prevents us from the type of acute expansion that we have recently seen in many other professions.”
to divide health Social welfare said: “This government inherited a broken NHS dental system, but we continue to reform it through a reinforced workforce and an upcoming health plan for 10 years,” said social welfare.
“We have already started appointing 700,000 additional additional dentistry dates, which is the” Hello Golden Hell “chart to recruit dentists in areas with the greater need, and we fix the NHS dental contract, with a shift to focus on prevention and retain NHS dentists.”
