The Coalition - I hate it already

Well, the new Coalition government has been in power for less than six months and I am sick of their attitude already.

I have just returned from a meeting of dental types, concerning the new Care Quality Commission (CQC) This is a NEW QUANGO (remember? We were to have a "bonfire of the QUANGOs" I was told), started off by New Labour to oversee amongst other things, dentistry.

Now this is strange, because we already have: PCTs, HSE, GDC, and English law doing this. But no, more paperpushing for the unemployable masses must be laid on. So yet ANOTHER body with substantial powers to shut me down should I not agree with the Politically Correct twaddle they peddle. And there are no employees there there who have ANY dental training. So they don`t know what they`re talking about.

And WORSE, this government has seen fit to increase it`s remit and powers substantially in a new White Paper.

So I shall have to apply, and soon, to join this merry band, and have an extended CRB check done on me. And eventually all my staff too. The application form is either 42 or 90 pages long - no one really knows. And no one knows how much it will cost me every year to pay these goons for poking their powerful noses into my business. Rumour control says it may cost anything up yo £5600 to join.

Morale in dentistry in the UK is very low amongst practice owners. Associates don`t give a damn. Why should they? They don`t have to do any of it or pay for it.

I am very glad that neither of my children are going into the so-called health care "professions"".