Practices should be encouraged, and not penalised, to move towards best practice in environmentally sustainable behaviour.
Financial support must be made available to practices to support transition towards environmentally sustainable behaviour.
Guidance such as HTM0105 must be reviewed and its requirements brought into line with best practice for environmentally sustainable behaviour.
What is the Problem?
Practices want to run as efficiently as possible but this is often frustrated by contrary national guidance. This guidance needs to be made consistent with wider societal expectations.
Dental practices receive little direct funding to make practice improvements.
To make the move to environmentally sustainable behaviour easier funding and support must be made available.
