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Bury Times reports more than 100 Bury children had rotting teeth removed in the space of a year, fresh figures have revealed. Data published by the Government’s Office for Heath Improvement and Disparities show around 110 children aged 19 or younger in Bury had at least one tooth removed in...

A Leeds-based dentist is giving the city's homeless community a reason to smile again, Leeds Live reports. Mr Munaf Qayyumis the owner and principle dentist at High Ash Dental Surgery in Leeds, who is giving up his Wednesday afternoons to transform the smiles of the city's underserved communities. The state...

Simon Lightwood MP writes for the Wakefield Express on the crisis in access to NHS dentistry. He writes: "I was contacted by my constituent, Mr Faqirzai, whose six-year-old daughter was in significant pain, having not been able to access an NHS dentist. Her teeth were black with decay and her...

The Manchester Evening News reports NHS dentists across Wigan have been inundated with requests from desperate people hundreds of miles away, a meeting heard. NHS dentists across Wigan have been inundated with requests from desperate people hundreds of miles away, a meeting heard. Only 33 - 9.4 per cent -...

The Times reports a Manchester-based company using artificial intelligence to train healthcare providers has raised a seed of around $4.3 million to expand its engineering team, grow its US footprint and spread into new markets. Recourse AI was backed by funds that focus on start-ups based in the north of...

The Greater Manchester Health and Care Champion Awards are back! The only Greater Manchester-wide awards for our whole health and care workforce are back for their fourth year and are bigger and better than ever. As well as regular favourites such as People’s Champion and Volunteer Champion, new categories have...

An NHS dentist in Oldham has revealed the pressures dentist practices are enduring, from the cost-of-living crisis to stagnant recruitment in what he describes as an underfunded area of healthcare, the Oldham Times reports. Dr Mohsan Ahmad, a dentist and partner at four dental practices in Greater Manchester, including Glodwick...

This comes as patients are delaying check-ups by five years and 40 per cent of people not going to the dentist at all, The Warrington Guardian reports. And the cost of living crisis and shortage of NHS dentists is to blame for this, according to a new survey. In Cheshire,...

Richard Madeley claimed he was 'just the messenger' as he came under fire for his comments on the crisis facing NHS dentistry reports Manchester Evening News The presenter was back on Good Morning Britain on Wednesday (November 23) and was forced to address his comments from the previous day's show....

Oldhamers say they are facing enormous difficulty accessing an NHS dentist with many forced to suffer in pain or fork out for eyewatering private treatment, the Oldham Times reports. Oldhamers say they are facing enormous difficulty accessing an NHS dentist with many forced to suffer in pain or fork out...