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SEVENTEEN dentists had gross earnings of more than £500,000 from the NHS last year at a time of growing cost pressures on the health service, and two dental practitioners clawed back more than £1 million in taxpayers' money for services provided to the public.
Many dentists concentrate on private patients, but others get reimbursed for work covered by the NHS.
Under freedom of information legislation, an NHS quango was asked for details of the top 100-earning dentists in Scotland for 2013-14.
Top of the list was Samir Sayegh, whose NHS dental services in the Lothians and Fife landed him more than £1.2m. The lowest NHS earner in this category was Alexander Hamilton, who received £286,578 for work in Bellshill and Hamilton.
Also at the top of the list were George Campbell, who was reimbursed for work in six *establishments in Glasgow, Lanarkshire and Greenock and earned around £1.1m, and Simon Miller, based at Glasgow Orthodontics, who was listed as receiving £948,869.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/...e-than-500k-a-year-from-public-purse.26048900
Many dentists concentrate on private patients, but others get reimbursed for work covered by the NHS.
Under freedom of information legislation, an NHS quango was asked for details of the top 100-earning dentists in Scotland for 2013-14.
Top of the list was Samir Sayegh, whose NHS dental services in the Lothians and Fife landed him more than £1.2m. The lowest NHS earner in this category was Alexander Hamilton, who received £286,578 for work in Bellshill and Hamilton.
Also at the top of the list were George Campbell, who was reimbursed for work in six *establishments in Glasgow, Lanarkshire and Greenock and earned around £1.1m, and Simon Miller, based at Glasgow Orthodontics, who was listed as receiving £948,869.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/...e-than-500k-a-year-from-public-purse.26048900