The Department of Health and Social Care report and annual accounts for 2022/23 show that £2.899bn was spent on NHS dentistry. The BDA says this has translated into cuts, with the budget falling by...
Andrea Leadsom, under-secretary of state for health and social care, was pressed by MPs on January 23, 2024, about the progress of recovery plans for NHS dental services.
Following comments from Andrea Leadsom, secretary for health and social care, that a “big package of change” is coming for NHS dentistry, the British Dental Association (BDA) has warned there is still...
The British Dental Association (BDA) has greeted the Daily Mirror’s launch of a national campaign to save NHS dentistry.
Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, has said access to dentistry has hit a crisis point after finding no dental practices in Fife were taking on NHS patients.
A Liberal Democrat Freedom of Information request has found that there have been 218,005 admissions to hospital for rotting teeth, including more than 100,000 child admissions, since 2018.
The British Dental Association (BDA) has warned the European Parliament’s vote to ban dental amalgam from January 1, 2025, will send shockwaves across the UK’s already struggling dental services.
The Labour Party has released details of a new plan to improve young people’s health. The measures include 700,000 extra urgent dental appointments, a supervised toothbrushing programme, vape...
The president of the British Society of Paediatric Dentistry (BSPD), Paula Waterhouse is calling for an end to the unethical practice of taking dental X-rays for asylum seekers in an attempt to verify...
Minister says his elderly “frail” mother has pulled her teeth out due to “desperation” and being unable to access NHS services.
Robert Halfon, minister for Harlow and the Villages, has released a statement in response to concerns about access to NHS dentists following an Opposition Day debate in parliament on January 9, 2023.
On January 9, 2024, Tim Farron, MP for Westmoreland, Furness and Eden, presented a petition to the House of Commons urging action on the lack of available NHS dental places in Cumbria and other rural...