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[–] Edie@hexbear.net 32 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The contract requires practices to agree to perform a set number of UDAs - and they are penalised if they come in below or above this. A check-up is worth one UDA while giving a patient a filling racks up three UDAs.

Rob told the Mirror: “We are being penalised for preventing patients requiring more UDAs. We have £150,000 ‘claw back’ this year but we have 19,000 NHS patients which is more than the practice has ever had. The clawback is for not doing enough UDAs but when patients are being looked after better they don’t have as much need for dental work.”

Capitalism rots literally everything. ~~Somehow, having good dental health and the NHS not needing to give money for filling is bad????~~

Edit: Oh wait, I didn't read that well. You are also penalised if you come above it! Holy shit, what?

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 30 points 1 week ago

maw oi m8 you got a loisence for them chompers?

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I know this is an inevitability of porky’s multi-decade long winning streak of the porks making gains in their own class interests. But this has to be cultural too, right?

Like anglosphere countries are more enthusiastic about sacrificing their quality of life for some uppercrust, and not to be a lib but this would be less plausible in Sweden, Japan, or France: all imperial core nations, and the latter has a lot of imperialist baggage just like Britain.

[–] aanes_appreciator@hexbear.net 18 points 1 week ago

neoliberalism has rotted us to the core.

Hey they're just trying to keep Br*tish culture alive!

[–] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It is The Daily Mirror, though.

[–] somename@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The way we read an article like this, and the way the chud audience reads this is likely very different.

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Chud reads this and goes: See? Socialism doesn’t work. Look what the government is punishing dentists for in the UK!

[–] aanes_appreciator@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The Mirror is a tabloid rag but at least its one with a minor socdem vibe to it. the article is actually not at clickbait as it seems either

[–] lil_tank@hexbear.net 17 points 1 week ago
[–] BadTakesHaver@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago

But at what cost

[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago
[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

Break public services on purpose to drive people to private industry is a staple of conservative politics.