ABSTRACT
The Beveridge Report was completed by 1942 but its publication was postponed because some Cabinet members of the wartime coalition government thought it too radical. The Beveridge Report was based on three principles: full employment, family allowances and a universal national health service (NHS). The architects of NHS assumed that free health services for all would lead to a drop in demand as treatment needs declined due to a predicted reduction in disease levels. The obligations and responsibilities that dentists must assume when practising in the NHS are contained in the NHS Regulations 1992, known as 'the Regulations'. The Dental Practice Board (DPB) is a statutory body set up originally under the National Health Service Act 1946 and now under the National Health Service Act 1977 as amended by the Health and Medicines Act 1988. The principal functions of DPB are: approval of payment applications; calculating and transferring payments; preventing and detecting fraud and abuse; and providing dental health information.
