There are more than 5,500 dental vacancies in the UK and the ADG says we have per capita among the lowest number of dentists in Europe, with only Bulgaria and Poland having fewer dentists per 1,000 people.
In 2022, 90 per cent of surgeries were not accepting new adult patients and 80 per cent were not accepting new child patients.
ADG is campaigning for a short-term intervention to complement the NHS’s long-term plan to increase UK training of dentists, which will only see a boost to the workforce by the 2030s.
Various MPs and peers in attendance at the Fill the Gap event co-signed a letter which addresses this immediate need by urging the General Dental Council to increase the capacity of the overseas registration exam (ORE).
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