NHS dental patients fall 19,000 in county - Carlisle News & Star 3rd July 2008

MORE than 19,000 fewer people are seeing an NHS dentist in Cumbria than before the Government’s reforms in April 2006. According to the NHS Information Centre for health and social care, in the two years to March 2006 a total of 290,793 people in Cumbria saw an NHS dentist, of which 212,787 were adults and 78,006 children – 58.7 per cent of the population in the area.

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