Richard Bacon, Conservative MP for South Norfolk, opened the session. He said, “I am sure that I am not alone among hon. Members in finding that the subject of access to a dentist is one of the largest in my constituency postbag and inbox.”
Richard went on to lay out the current issues facing the services. He stated, “The total number of dentists working for the NHS and the activity that they have provided has fallen, and that the total number of patients seen by an NHS dentist has fallen by 900,000.”
The minister said, “I do not like saying that as a supporter of the Government, but I do not think the “collapse of NHS dentistry” is too extreme when we see what is happening.”
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