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1 min read Workplace issues/your health
​After 15 years in dentistry, Marketing Pirates of Dentistry and its network of dental principals are noticing it’s increasingly difficult to attract and retain good dental nurses, dentists, hygienists, therapists, practice managers and receptionists.

Even more shocking, only 30% of the overall UK workforce are estimated to be actively engaged. But that’s only half the story! The UK has 6% lower average engagement levels than other large economies.

A 2017 study by the British Dental Association (BDA) discovers 58% of NHS dentists want to move on, either to private work, overseas, into retirement or out of dentistry altogether. And 53% of young and newly qualified NHS dentists, aged under 35, intend on leaving.

Now imagine if 30% of dental practice lights, suction units, instruments didn’t work, how would this affect the running of UK dental practices?

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