The article is intended to put the current NHS dental contract in England into context and identify areas where there has been confusion about interpretation of certain clauses. The article describes these as grey areas and provides a rationale for logically interpreting these issues, such as urgent treatment, mixing NHS and private treatment and defining what a course of treatment is.
These are the views of the authors based on significant personal experience of the contract, both as practitioners and as dento-legal advisers.
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