Primary Health Care gets Afterpay dental surge

The chief executive of Primary Health Care's dental surgeries says the group had a flood of 800 new customers in just eight weeks after offering the Afterpay 'buy now, payer later'.

Michelle Aquilina said the take-up rate was "phenomenal", given it was a soft launch, and surpassed even the most optimistic internal forecasts. All up more than 1400 patients accessed the Afterpay portal in a two-month period since August, she said.