Where are my dentists....?
How Did British Dental Care Get So Awful? | Novara Media
Even before the pandemic, Britain had a relatively low number of dentists: in 2019, the country had the fewest per 100,000 residents of any G7 country (53), substantially lower than countries like Italy (82) and Germany (86). Britain’s dentistry practices were already having to serve far more patients per dentist than other countries, and Covid-19 stretched them to breaking point.
After the pandemic began, and the lockdowns prevented dentist practices from operating (except to perform emergency treatment), the total number of NHS dentists fell by 4% in a single year; in total, the NHS has lost over 1,000 dentists since 2019.
Feels like we’d be lucky to even get this guy in this country.
Low Flying Fruit
By its composer and reviewers alike, ‘Pretty Boy’ has been likened to ‘A Forest’ by The Cure… In reality, much like the title track, ‘Pretty Boy’ has more in common with Stereophonics.
Oooof
Every Witch Way But Loose
Intimate Majesty: Witch King by Martha Wells - Every Book a Doorway
Witch King is the story of what happens when the world-changing adventures are over; what does the world do with its heroes, when it decides it doesn’t need them anymore? Intertwined is an earlier timeline, letting us trace the thread of how, exactly, our main character became capital-k Known – but it stops where most stories are just getting going. Wells carefully, deliberately avoids what most of us would think of as the real story, the big story, the dramatic and cinematic war against evil – we see its beginning and its aftermath, but not the war itself, not really.
Looking forward to reading this.