Uist dental service in crisis
Two long-serving dentists have quit within weeks of each other.
Two long-serving dentists in Uist have quit within weeks of each other, raising questions about the management by NHS Western Isles of the islands’ dental service.
The resignations are understood to have stemmed from contractual problems, reports the Stornoway Gazette.
There are currently five vacancies in the Outer Hebrides, three of which are for Uist and Barra, including a senior dental officer role at Ospadal Uibhist agus Bharraigh. There are two vacancies for dental receptionists at the Western Isles dental centre.
The Gazette quotes an NHS source: “Anyone in their right mind coming from the mainland is going to look at that and say, ‘something’s wrong there’.”
The source said dental services in the Southern Isles were at crisis point – “everything is really on a knife’s edge” – and questioned why, when services had been stable for years, had it gone into a crisis “all of a sudden”.
They called the double resignations a “devastating blow” and asked: “Why have the Southern Isles gone from having four clinicians a few years ago to none?”
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