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 80% of those polled saying this was the number one issue.
Throughout the ongoing crisis in dentistry, the Association of Dental Groups (ADG) has been saying time and time again that the priority issue is the huge gap in the dental workforce. Repeating a mantra of ‘recruitment, recruitment, recruitment – and retention’, the ADG has flagged the significance of the gap in the dental workforce.
The full press release is available to read here.