For patients who like their dentistry on standing order: the plan covers two examinations and two hygiene visits a year, ten per cent off all treatment, and priority on the 8:30 emergency slots. It suits regular attenders and usually saves them a little money; it does not suit everyone, and nobody here is paid to persuade you onto it. Pay-as-you-go patients get identical appointments at identical prices, and you can join or leave the plan with a month’s notice at any point. Children of plan members keep their free check-ups until twelve, the same as everyone else’s children — some things should not be a membership perk.

After your examination you take home a written treatment plan listing each item with its exact fee — not an estimate, the fee. Nothing on that plan changes without a conversation and a revised plan first; if a tooth surprises us mid-treatment, the work pauses at a sensible point and the options are priced before anyone continues. You pay per visit, by card or the old-fashioned ways, and larger courses of treatment can be spread across their appointments so the cost arrives in the same instalments the work does. Written quotes stand for six months. Medical care is exempt from VAT, so the figure in the guide is the whole figure.

The treatment plan you take home is one page, on paper, and built to be understood at a kitchen table rather than a reception desk. Each line names the tooth in plain words as well as chart notation — “upper left back molar”, not just UL6 — then the treatment, the material, the number of visits it needs, and its exact fee from the guide. Items are ordered by urgency, not by price, and anything marked “watch” costs nothing and means precisely that: we look again in six months. The bottom of the page carries the total, the per-visit spread of that total, and the date the quote stands until, which is six months from the examination. If two treatments would both work, both appear, priced, with a sentence on the trade-off — because a plan you cannot compare is an instruction, not a plan.