Healthwatch Rutland has highlighted delays in the creation of the local ‘Dental Access Plan', and in securing a new provider to improve appointment...
Grassroots campaign, Toothless in England, has released an open letter to the UK’s health secretary. The organisation calls on the minister to declare...
Following a debate in the House of Commons, Wes Streeting, the health and social care secretary, has reiterated that he plans to deliver 700,000...
Ed Davey, leader of the Liberal Democrats, has announced a plan to “end dental deserts,” including an emergency scheme to guarantee children and young...
John Penrose, minister for Weston-super-mare, has asked the prime minister when more NHS dental appointments would be available for patients.
John Lewis, chair of the North Cumbria Local Dental Committee, says NHS dentistry has “become unsustainable.” He is calling for the contract to be...
Boris Johnson has said it is “mad” that Winston Churchill’s party is working toward “banning cigars”.
A senior group of councillors from across the political spectrum wrote to the prime minister on March 1, 2024, to urge him to publish the ‘Tobacco and...
A Cambridgeshire dental practice has set forth expansion plans to take over neighbouring properties. The surgery also hopes to increase the number of...
The Oral Health Foundation has broken down the 23 key points of the government’s dental recovery plans. It considers if it's really going to make a...
Published on February 7, 2024, by the NHS and the government, the NHS Dental Recovery Plan could see up to 2.5m additional appointments delivered to...
Andrea Leadsom, under-secretary of state for health and social care, was pressed by MPs on January 23, 2024, about the progress of recovery plans for...