Research undertaken by the Care Quality Commission at the beginning of 2023 showed, “the proportion of residents never accessing NHS dental care routinely has grown from six per cent to 25 per cent. Homes stated that residents were always or mostly always able to access routine care fell from 67 per cent to 35 per cent.”
Speaking to the Clacton Gazette, David McGuire, chief executive of Diagrama Foundation, said, “We are experiencing difficulties with access to NHS dentists across all our care homes.
“At our care home in Clacton, most of our fifty residents have to pay for private treatment or travel 18 miles to Colchester, where we are able to access limited NHS treatments.
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