Wera Hobhouse, MP for Bath, has called for an end to ‘dental deserts’. She said that these figures are a damning indictment of the Conservative Party’s legacy of running local health services into the ground.
The research is based on data from the health service from March 2023 to March 2024.
It also revealed the proportion of children not seen by an NHS dentist in Bath and North East Somerset. For 2023, almost 40 per cent of children had not been seen by an NHS dentist.
This is despite the NHS recommendation that under-18s should see a dentist at least once a year because their teeth can decay faster than adults. Tooth decay is also the leading cause of hospital admissions for children aged six to 10.
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