New data shows 40 million NHS appointments - the equivalent of a whole year's worth of care in pre-covid times - have been lost since lockdown. Ministers have declined to set a deadline to reform the widely discredited NHS dental contract - which is fuelling an exodus from the service - or guarantee adequate funding is put in place to underpin the rebuild of the service. Despite a recent pledge of £50m to provide 350,000 appointments by April 1, the service has faced unprecedented cuts over the last decade and would require an additional £880m simply to restore levels of resources to 2010 levels.
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