HSC reports on dental complaints

The Victorian Health Services Commissioner (HSC), Ms Beth Wilson, tabled her Annual Report for 2004/05 in Parliament this week, highlighting 178 complaints about dentists amongst the total of 2357 complaints about health services generally.

This figure is a slight reduction on the 183 complaints reported for the 2003/04 year. There are approximately 4 million patient attendances for dental treatment in Victoria each year.

At the time of writing, the HSC's annual report was not available on-line. We will post a link as soon as it becomes available. Extracts from this report related to dentistry will also appear in the February edition of the Branch Newsletter.

The graph shown here appears on page 23 of the report.