Over 3,000 dentists in England have stopped offering NHS care in England over the last three years, and the number of qualified dentists from the EU coming to the UK has halved, worsening the crisis.
Everyone should be able to access an NHS dentist if they need one. Instead, people across our area are faced with a stark choice between expensive private care and no care at all. This has to change.
We believe urgent reform of the NHS contract is required to ensure that the dentists that we already have deliver NHS services.
In summer 2023, the last dentist supplying NHS services in Romiley withdrew them. Many other dentists across the whole of the constituency have already withdrawn from supplying NHS services. Let us know if you have had a problem getting an NHS dentist.
Our policy to fix NHS dental services is to reform the NHS dental services contract and to increase funding to pay for it.
The new NHS contract should:
We also propose
The Labour Government’s “Golden Hello” scheme for dentists has been condemned after it was revealed that only two dentists have been employed through the scheme in the whole of Greater Manchester.
The ongoing reduction in local authorities’ spending power can only be tackled by the Government addressing the critical shortfalls in social care, local MP Lisa Smart has told a Commons debate on local government funding.
Local MP Lisa Smart has raised concerns that the Department of Health’s golden hello scheme may not be delivering for areas which have already lost their NHS dentists.
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