US EditionScheme to boost access to NHS dentists 'comprehensively failed', MPs say
- The Public Accounts Committee reported that the Dental Recovery Plan has been a comprehensive failure in improving access to NHS dentists, despite promises for additional treatments and appointments.
- The PAC stated that funding arrangements only allow about half of England's population to see an NHS dentist over two years, worsening the situation.
- PAC chairman Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown criticized the system for forcing some Britons to remove their own teeth, calling the state of NHS dentistry utterly disgraceful.
- Satisfaction with NHS dentistry has dropped to a record low of 20 percent, while dissatisfaction is at a record high of 55 percent, as per the British Social Attitudes survey.
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The failure at the root of crumbling British dentistry
What is politics really about: the art of getting things done, or merely of making plans to get things done? It too often seems to be the latter, with even quite senior figures seeming to think that they’ve solved a problem by announcing a plan, without waiting around to see if that plan comes to fruition.Take dentistry, one of the areas most throbbingly in need of a plan. MPs have been raising the issues of “dental deserts” and waiting lists in…
Scheme to boost access to NHS dentists 'comprehensively failed', MPs say
Introduced in February last year by Conservative health ministers, the Dental Recovery Plan promised to introduce 1.5 million new treatments. The PAC's report said it appears to have "resulted in worsening the picture".
There will be NO NHS dentists in future without urgent action now, MPs warn
NHS dentistry has “no future” unless ministers agree to pay dentists more, MPs warn. A report by Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee said efforts to fix the ailing service have been a “complete failure”. AlamyNHS dentistry could one day be rationed only to people in need (stock image)[/caption] It said the contract between the Government and dentists carrying out NHS work must be torn up and rewritten. Clinics make so much more money from pri…
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