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A campaigner has discovered that only one dental practice within a 13-mile radius of Didcot has confirmed it is accepting new adult patients, the Oxford Mail reports Carol Stavris of campaign group Didcot Against Authority made the discovery when she put her post code into the NHS website to find...

The New Stateman reports on the BDA's evidence to the Health and Social Care Committee, presented this week Access to NHS dental care has depleted. According to a BBC and British Dental Association (BDA) investigation last year, nine in ten NHS dentist practices are not accepting new adult patients, and...

SThawn Charlwood, Chair of the British Dental Association’s General Dental Practice Committee writes in his blog the BDA have told MPs it is not rocket science: Improve the terms and conditions and put in place sustainable funding, and we will have NHS dentists again. We have been pushing for years,...

British patients face the shortest GP appointments and are least likely to see a doctor in person, an international study has found, the Telegraph reports. Researchers analysed data from an international survey of almost 10,000 GPs in 10 high-income countries, including around 1,000 in the UK. They said the findings...

The Daily Mail reports the story of Stuart McCance, who visits schools in Norfolk and Waveney to promote good oral hygiene, saying that for some six-year-olds he is the first dentist they have ever seen. 'In some instances, we're finding it's the first time kids have seen a dentist -...

The BBC reports more than 50% of children in Swindon do not have access to an NHS dentist, according to a report from NHS England. The commissioner for NHS dentistry, Jo Lawton, said children in the Wiltshire town have an access rate of 47.6%. The figure is still higher than...

Free toothbrushes and toothpaste will be given out to those who need them most in Wolverhampton through a £40,000 scheme by council and health bosses, The Express and Star reports. The items will be distributed to people and families via charities, food banks, religious places of worship, warm spaces, Strengthening...

More than one in five Britons are currently not signed up with a dentist, according to a YouGov poll which revealed some people are even extracting their own teeth and attempting root canal treatment, the i paper reports. Patients across England, Scotland and Wales have shared desperate experiences in a...

This morning, the Health and Social Care Committee received ‘brutally honest’ oral evidence on the state of NHS dentistry from dental leaders reports Dentistry.co.uk. MPs heard the facts about the state of NHS dentistry this morning. In the first public evidence session into the Health and Social Care Committee’s NHS...

A dentist who visits schools to check children's dental health has said some six-year-olds "have never seen a toothbrush", the BBC reports. Stuart McCance is part of a voluntary project working with more than 800 pupils in Norfolk and Waveney. No dental practice in the area is registering children as...