It was the picture that perfectly captured the bleak state of NHS dentistry in 2024. Hundreds of desperate people standing in a queue that snaked into the distance, all clinging to the hope they might finally get the care they urgently needed.
The farce at the newly opened St Paul’s Dental Practice in Bristol – where an estimated 1,500 patients were registered for NHS treatment in just two days – highlighted the extent of the crisis that the sector currently
England will be short of 570,000 NHS workers by 2036 without a massive boost in recruitment, officials have warned.
Staff shortages have been blamed for the ailing service’s struggles in dealing with the Covid backlog and deteriorating A&E performance.
Currently, the NHS has around 150,000 vacancies.
But a leaked version of the NHS’s long-awaited workforce plan warns that toll could treble without urgently bolstering the workforce, particularly with Brit medics. The NHS currently employs around 1.6million people.
However, the Treasury
Google contributes a large percentage of traffic to many healthcare websites.
For doctor appointment bookings, 57% of patients start by using online search. And when patients are searching for a healthcare facility on Google, they genuinely mean business.
SimilarWeb finds that 85% of the traffic to ClevelandClinic.org, 83% of the traffic to HopkinsMedicine.org, and 87% of the traffic to MayoClinic.org comes from organic search.
But ranking on Google isn’t as simple as creating a website. The online world has grown
