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Dentists are least confident professionals in SA – PPS

Published: June 20, 2019

JOHANNESBURG, 20 June 2019 – The dental profession is the least confident in South Africa with only 47% optimistic about the next five years, according to the 2019 PPS Graduate Professional Index (GPI) results.

 

Financial viability and economic conditions, both at 35%, were cited as the top reasons.  When asked about the sustainability of dentists, 87% thought that technological advancements have positively influenced their ability to treat patients, but 66% thought it was difficult to get funding for specialised equipment. Fifty-five percent (55%) thought there was a skills shortage facing the industry.

 

On the National Health Insurance, 54% of respondents were of the opinion that this will increase access to dental services, and 58% thought they could be under threat from big corporates offering dentistry.

 

“There are a myriad of challenges facing dentists in South Africa with the most fundamental being practices that are price sensitive to the tougher economic climate. However, it is positive that many are benefiting from technology and integrating these in the treatment of patients, which demonstrates the flexible innovation within this profession,” says Motshabi Nomvete, Technical Marketing Specialist at PPS.

 

PPS conducted an independent survey of 5,837 members at the beginning of 2019 to gauge their perceptions on a number of issues affecting the Engineering, Accounting, Dental, Legal, Medical, Pharmaceutical and other sector professions.  

 

Medical professionals were the next least confident profession in SA. The most confident were accountancy (86%), other* (80%), legal (65%) and engineering (60%) and pharmacists (60%).

 

*Note to the editor: ‘Other’ are business professional, financial sector, computer sciences/IT, education, science and biology, social/community upliftment, urban/rural development, environmental sciences/conservation, arts and literature/academia, government/public service, law enforcement and agriculture/horticulture professions.

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PPS is the largest South African company of its kind, exclusively for graduate professionals, that still embraces an ethos of mutuality, which means that it exists solely for the benefit of its members. Members receive profit allocations based on the qualifying life risk products they hold with PPS. Thus, PPS members with qualifying products could share in the profits of PPS Insurance, PPS Investments, PPS Short-Term Insurance and PPS Healthcare Administrators via annual allocations to the unique PPS Profit-Share Account. In addition, the more products members hold across these PPS businesses, the larger their percentage of earnings through the PPS Cross-Holdings Profit-Share Booster.

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