For some time DHSC has been working on a plan to fix NHS dentistry. I worked on it as a minister. Here are the top three things we need from it. 1) Funding to get dentists taking on new patients again The most pressing challenge is to get dentists to take on new NHS patients. Large rural areas of England don’t have any dentists taking on new adult NHS patients (black dots below), and the people without a current connection to a dentist struggle the most to get treatment. You can explore the map below at
Neil, the Conservative Party in its 2010 manifesto said that a new plan for Dentistry would be brought in ungently as the 4 year old plan was not working, 14 years later you are saying the same thing again as nothing other than reducing the funding as been done so far.
As the last governments plan has been in place for 18 years of which 14 were under this government you must have after all been at least thought it could continue and didn’t need to change or else why has nothing changed ?
Could you enlighten your constituency's electorate by saying why the government hasn’t carried out the 14 year old promise? Also what will it now cost to return this service to what it was 14 years ago or even to improve it to an acceptable standard ? and where is that money coming from as we are continually being told there is no money ?
May be a mark of privilege, but I didn't realise you could get NHS dentistry until a was a teenager, and have never used it.
Still not clear to me why it exists. An annual private hygienists vist costs ~£70 – just over half the cost of a Netflix subscription – and the price is half that for kids.
In other words: anyone can afford it.
I'm sure there are more
productive uses of £3bn taxpayer money. Perhaps it's best to continue the effective budget freeze and let inflation kill it off?
Neil, the Conservative Party in its 2010 manifesto said that a new plan for Dentistry would be brought in ungently as the 4 year old plan was not working, 14 years later you are saying the same thing again as nothing other than reducing the funding as been done so far.
As the last governments plan has been in place for 18 years of which 14 were under this government you must have after all been at least thought it could continue and didn’t need to change or else why has nothing changed ?
Could you enlighten your constituency's electorate by saying why the government hasn’t carried out the 14 year old promise? Also what will it now cost to return this service to what it was 14 years ago or even to improve it to an acceptable standard ? and where is that money coming from as we are continually being told there is no money ?
Thank you.
May be a mark of privilege, but I didn't realise you could get NHS dentistry until a was a teenager, and have never used it.
Still not clear to me why it exists. An annual private hygienists vist costs ~£70 – just over half the cost of a Netflix subscription – and the price is half that for kids.
In other words: anyone can afford it.
I'm sure there are more
productive uses of £3bn taxpayer money. Perhaps it's best to continue the effective budget freeze and let inflation kill it off?