Stephen Duckett
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921 appearances
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first heard Jun 2006
last heard May 2019
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Practice approach where dental practitioners would say, we're prepared to sign up to this scheme, and in exchange for signing up to this scheme, we're going to say there's going to be no out-of-pockets.
So you'd immediately say there's no you know, if if you're going to sign up, there's going to be no out-of-pockets.
You if you sign up, you say we're going to provide the data about what we're doing, so the funding agency probably meets the fundamental.
Medicare would be able to compare the practices to see who's got a more preventive orientation, who's using evidence base.
Do you think dentists will sign up to that?
Do you think that just
But we haven't a doctor signing up to that.
Well, this is a major expansion of the funding available, and I guarantee that the public schemes, the states would sign up to that.
And I think if the Federal Government is going to cough up, you mean?
Exactly, exactly.
But and and this would mean an basically an end to to public sector waiting lists.
But I think there will be private dentists who would sign up to da to that as well.
Many, many private dentists are already signing up to the child dental project.
benefit scheme and we're suggesting the payment rates be roughly the same as the existing child dental benefit scheme.
So we we're confident that there'll be uh many de many dentists would be would be prepared to sign up to that scheme.
We're suggesting it should be a un what we're calling it is a universal dental scheme because there are differences between Medicare and and what we're proposing.
We are proposing something basing based on participating practices.
We are proposing a much much greater monitoring because we want to we want to actually ensure that evidence based practice is used.
We want to ensure that pe we are using oral health therapists to the extent we can possibly use them.
So it's not just
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