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16th June 2010
The Irish Dental Association has warmly welcomed the decision by the High Court to grant an injunction restraining the HSE from unilaterally varying its contract with two dentists under the medical card dental scheme.
The IDA fully supported the case taken by Dr Martin Reid and Dr James Turner against the HSE.
If the HSE is allowed to proceed to restrict the medical card dental scheme to one which only provides limited emergency dental treatment for patients this will have a devastating impact on the 1.6 million people who hold medical cards.
Fintan Hourihan, CEO of the IDA, said the Association had huge concerns about the implications of these savage cuts for these patients, the dental health of the country as a whole and the dentists who made this scheme work so effectively.
"In late April we described the HSE's move as unsafe, unworkable and unethical. We said it would hit the most vulnerable in our society the hardest as well as setting back the dental health of the nation by decades. We also said that the cuts did not make any financial sense as every case of delayed treatment would require hugely expensive treatment in future years. Happily the Court decision supports that view and hopefully this will concentrate minds in the HSE" Hourihan said.
ENDS
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