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Record numbers of patients are complaining to the NHS Ombudsman about poor care, exorbitant fees and difficulty getting treatment from NHS dental services in England, the Guardian reports. Mistakes by dentists mean some patients are being left in agony – in some cases unable to eat – while others are...

With new data showing Scotland's oral health gap shows little sign of closing, the British Dental Association has warned that decades of progress on children's dental health risk going into reverse. The latest report of the National Dental Inspection Programme, published today, shows stark and persistent inequalities are widening between...

The British Dental Association has said the success of reform in NHS dentistry will hinge on appropriate funding. It follows comments by Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting that across the NHS “reform is more important than investment.” The BDA welcomed recent Labour commitments on reform but has stressed meaningful change...

The BDA have issued the following press release. With the Government yet to honour its pledge to publish a recovery plan for NHS dentistry, the British Dental Association has welcomed moves from the Labour Party to bring forward its own proposals. The plan from the Labour leadership covers both short...

The British Dental Association (BDA) took to the Conservative Party Conference today to stress the ‘ailing’ state of NHS dentistry to the delegates reports Dentistry.co.uk Taking place in Manchester, the BDA stood outside the conference with a poster which recreated the Conservative Party’s iconic ‘Labour isn’t working’ poster into ‘NHS...

The only dental practice in Henley still accepting new NHS patients says the system is broken and needs an overhaul. There are four NHS practices in the town, two of which see adults and children and two which see children only. Damira Dental in Duke Street is now the only...

An Oxfordshire politician has said she is "appalled" that more than 83,000 children were not seen by an NHS dentist in the county last year, the Oxford Mail reports. MP for Oxford West and Abingdon, Layla Moran has raised the concerns as latest NHS figures show more than 200,000 adults...

BBC Breakfast featured a piece on the new stats and spoke to GDPC Chair Shawn Charlwood. He was asked why children aren’t seeing dentists for checkups, he said: “Our youngest patients are paying a price for the choices that are being made on dentistry. I am pleased to see the...

The Daily Mail reports on new figures obtained by the Liberal Democrats which show that 4.4 million children in England were not seen by an NHS dentist in the year to June 2023. This equates to 39 per cent of all children. The figures, from the House of Commons Library,...

The number of adults seen by NHS dentists in Wigan over the past two years remains below pre-pandemic levels, new figures show. It comes as the British Dental Association call for "radical and urgent change" to help NHS dentistry recover from the impact of Covid-19. Figures from the NHS show...