DFO Netcast 46 - Is Dental Nurse Indemnity the next PPI?
Channel: Derek Watson
Date: 2013-10-14

It's only 953 episodes to go until Episode 1000 and we have found the lead to the video camera, so it's goodbye to Walnut Cam © and back in the studio to discuss the fact that Richard Lishman can't be found. Which is a shame as we wanted to ask him how he managed to afford a car that retails at £81,000 minimum. Derek Watson BDS reminisces about his Ford Sierra Ghia and how he managed to survive the crash that wrote it off by skidding skilfully ensuring it was his wife who took the brunt of the impact.

Can the BDA afford to say "LaLaLa" to an estimated 10 per cent of its members and 20 per cent of its staff? Is it simply a private conversion that has gone wrong? Has anyone ever been killed by a stack of unread BDJs? How did Dental Protection's conversion to risk-based subscriptions work?

Does Sir Stuart Rose's appointment as Chairman of Oasis Healthcare signify a ramping up in the corporate struggle or is it simply routine? Are they going to dominate dentistry, or end up as another Southern Cross? Prices for NHS practices remain higher than those for similar private practices.

What exactly is indemnity insurance? After years of telling us why insurance is better, why has Dental Defence Union changed back to mutual status from being insurance-based? And we try and get to the bottom of a perennial problem in dentistry. Do nurses need indemnity insurance or not? Could selling indemnity insurance to nurses be the next PPI scandal? And should mutual indemnifiers be giving their members a slice of the fund when they retire?

Join Derek Watson BDS and freelance Journalist and author Chris Ritchie as they discuss the dental news.