Half the country can't get an NHS dentist - and haven't had any treatment for two years - Daily Mail 17th April 2008

Thursday, April 17, 2008

The full, desperate state of dental care across the country can be revealed today. Half the population has received no dental care on the NHS in the last two years. And thousands of suffering patients are turning up at hospital emergency departments for treatment because they cannot find an NHS dentist. Shocking figures seen by the Daily Mail suggest there have been 27,000 more hospital admissions since the Government bungled the introduction of a new contract for dentists.

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