At a meeting of the Joint Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee for Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland (LLR), Janet Underwood, chair of Healthwatch Rutland, talked about the unaffordability of private dentistry for many people and relayed individuals’ experiences of trying to get an NHS dental appointment in Rutland.
She said, "Some people are in pain … absolutely desperate. They are ringing here, there and everywhere and can’t get one.”
Janet also highlighted that Rutland has the lowest rate of access to NHS dentistry of all the areas of LLR, with just 20 per cent of people in the county having dentistry funded by the NHS in the second half of last year.
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