The Association of Dental Groups (ADG) team scooped up the winner’s trophy for ‘Excellent use of PR’ at last week’s FMC’s Dental Industry Awards 2025. The ADG submitted their ‘Creating Dental Oases’ campaign which sought to offer solutions to the issue of ‘Dental Deserts’. To read the full press release, please click here.

The Association of Dental Groups (ADG) is launching the ‘ADG Micro-Groups Business Mentoring in partnership with Agilio’ initiative. This new mentoring programme will see six of the ADG’s senior dental group business leaders paired with UK micro-groups (defined as having more than one but fewer than six practices) who are keen to grow, with the […]

The Association of Dental Groups (ADG), the trade body representing UK dentistry’s ‘mixed economy’ of NHS, Private and Community-based services, recognises that its member groups are in the main located in the heart of the communities they serve. So, for many of the ADG’s Groups, supporting locals means more than just offering dental care and […]

Finding solutions to the depleted dental workforce in the UK was front-of-mind when the Association of Dental Group’s (ADG) Executive Chair, Neil Carmichael recently met with the High Commissioner for India, H.E. Mr. Vikram Doraiswami. With vacancies for dentists in the UK totalling over 2,700, patient access is being significantly impacted. So the Association of Dental […]

In response to news that the Chancellor has written to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) urging them to launch a market study into private dentistry costs and practices, the Association of Dental Groups (ADG), the trade body representing the UK’s ‘mixed economy’ of NHS, Private and Community-based services – provided the following statement:   Neil Carmichael, Executive Chair, the Association of […]

In response to news that UCL Consultants Limited have been chosen to manage the Overseas Registration Examination (ORE), the Association of Groups (ADG) is hopeful that this signals the dawn of the significant improvements needed to make the system fit for purpose. The General Dental Council’s (GDC) outdated ORE system has caused a massive bottleneck […]

Into just its second year, the ADG Conference in partnership with FMC, has now grown into a no-miss date in the business of dentistry calendar.  2,500 dental practices attended from approximately 70 Groups, along with 50 exhibitors – who all gathered at the ICC in Newport Wales for the 2025 Association of Dental Groups’ conference, hosted in […]

Neil Carmichael, The Association of Dental Groups’ (ADG) Exec Chair participated in the 10 Year Workforce Plan session hosted today by the Department of Health & Social Care (DHSC) for partners. As the trade body representing the whole dental workforce across the ‘mixed economy’ of NHS, Private and Community-based services, this provided the ADG with […]

The Association of Dental Groups (ADG), the trade body representing members’ whole dental workforce across the ‘mixed economy’ of NHS, Private and Community-based services, welcomes the release by the General Dental Council (GDC) of the latest data on working patterns across the dental team. With the recent call for evidence for the NHS 10 Year […]

Neil Carmichael, Exec Chair at the Association of Dental Groups (ADG), spent a weekend recognising talent in dentistry – recognising the large groups to the small groups. Neil was amongst guests at the MyDentist Excellence Awards 2025 from 10th-11th October where industry guests celebrated the best in the dental profession. To read the full Press […]

The Association of Dental Groups (ADG), the UK’s leading trade body for the dental workforce including dentists and other dental care professionals across NHS, Private and Community-based services, welcomes the DHSC’s call for evidence for the NHS 10 Year Workforce Plan (10YHP). Broad consultation to the new workforce plan is a step the ADG has […]

The Association of Dental Groups’ (ADG) response to the recommendations in the recently published ‘Open consultation – NHS dentistry contract: quality and payment reforms’ is that in general, they are to be welcomed. The proposals which include support for a focus on the highest priority and highest need patient groups and delivery of evidence-based prevention […]

The Association of Dental Groups (ADG), the trade association representing NHS, Private and Community-Based services, welcomes today’s NHS 10 Year Health Plan announcement, noting that the broad direction is positive To read the full press release, please click here.

ADG reveals 4.5m more patients could be treated by filling dentist gap whilst fully-trained dentists resort to working in fast food outlets.   ADG presents new workforce report to MPs ‘Creating ‘Dental Oases’   18th June 2025, London: The Association of Dental Groups (ADG) launches its ‘Creating Dental Oases’ report to MPs in the House […]

The Association of Dental Groups welcomes prompt DDRB announcement. As a priority, Government must now confirm dentistry contract uplift. In response to the announcement of the Doctors’ and Dentists’ Review Body recommendations for staff pay for 2025/26, the Association of Dental Groups (ADG) says it welcomes the report’s earlier publication which has the potential to […]

On 13th May in Westminster, the Association of Dental Group’s (ADG) Executive Chair, Neil Carmichael led a Parliamentary roundtable with the aim of delivering recommendations for driving down inequalities and solving the dental workforce crisis. Key stakeholders, including policymakers and healthcare professionals, met to discuss and debate the steps needed to transform dentistry. The Parliamentary […]

Survey data released today from the General Dental Council (GDC) on dentists’ working patterns, reports that just 0.8 percent (241) of the 30,066 who completed the questionnaire said they were actively seeking work as a dentist. The Association of Dental Groups (ADG) cautions that this does not bode well when it comes to filling the […]

The long-awaited Public Accounts Committee (PAC) ‘Fixing NHS Dentistry’ report lands today and the Association of Dental Groups (ADG) warns that the priority should be filling the massive gap in the total dental workforce. The report states that in March 2024 there were over 5,500 vacancies across the NHS dental profession with many going unfilled […]

On 25th March, Neil Carmichael, the Association of Dental Group’s (ADG) Executive Chair joined a panel of experts at the HBI (Healthcare Business International) conference 2025 in Paris to debate why nations can expect to spend less on healthcare, if they invest more in oral health. The conference, attended by over 800+ delegates from 40 […]

The Association of Dental Groups (ADG) welcomed the recognition given by Stephen Kinnock MP, Minister of State at the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) of the dental workforce issues that stand in the way of recovery. UK dentistry stakeholders gathered to hear the minister at the BDIA Dental Showcase at London Excel on […]

Filling the 3,000 plus gap in the UK’s dental workforce was the driving force in the Association of Dental Group (ADG) Executive Chair, Neil Carmichael’s decision to travel to India last week to take part in a series of meetings.  Following an invitation extended by the International Dental Organisation-UK (IDO-UK) to the ADG to attend […]

ADG welcomes 700,000 urgent appointments, but queries ‘Who will carry them out and who is really footing the bill?’ The Association of Dental Groups (ADG) is encouraged by today’s Department of Health & Social Care (DHSC) announcement promising 700,000 additional urgent care dental appointments since it shows our profession’s voices are being heard: dentistry is […]

A white paper published on 16th January 2025 by the British Dental Journal Jobs (BDJ) ‘The Future of Dental Recruitment in the UK: Trends and Predictions for 2025’1 reveals that the ‘supply of trained dental professionals is the top thing they believe had the greatest impact on their practice’s ability to recruit during 2023′, with […]

“Delayed, disappointing and not actually an uplift at all” is the ADG’s response to last week’s Doctors and Dentists Review Body (DDRB) announcement of the pay review for dental practices for 2024/5. NHS dental contract holders will receive an uplift of 4.64% overall, backdated to April 2024. This is a pay cut for dental practices, […]