This petition was submitted during the 2015-2017 parliament
Rejected petition Dental nurses need the pay to match their qualification not a shop assistant.
Dental nurse pay is too low with many on a couple of pence over minimum wage for a qualified job as a dental nurse. It cost indemnity and gdc registration fees of £116 a year to do this job and cpd also costs alot of money.
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Dental nurses in practice have no benefits of nhs discounts pensions or incentives and are on pretty much half of a dental nurse who works in hospital for the NHS. It would be more cost effective for a dental nurse on around 7 pound an hour who then pays for courses, cpd, indemnity and GDC registration to give up there jobs to work in a supermarket. Something needs to change.
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This petition has been rejected because it is about a matter which the UK Government or Parliament is no responsible for.
The level of pay for dental nurses who are not employees of the NHS is a matter for the businesses that employs them.
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