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NHS dental recovery plan could be unreliable, government admits
The government gave ‘evasive and inaccurate answers’ regarding NHS dentistry at today’s Health and Social Care Committee hearing, the profession…
Dentistry
How much attention have you paid to the dental news this week? – 11 November 2023
It’s been a busy week for dental news. Missed it? Here’s what’s happened over the past seven days… Mouth cancer…
Dentistry
How much attention have you paid to the dental news this week? – 2 September 2023
It’s been a busy week for dental news. Missed it? Here’s what’s happened over the past seven days… Hospital dental…
Dentistry
Unmet need for NHS dentistry ‘hits record high’
More than six million adults failed to get an NHS dental appointment in the last two years, statistics suggest. The…
Dentistry
Rishi Sunak answers question on dentistry in first PMQs
In his first PMQs as Prime Minister of the UK, Rishi Sunak faced questions on the future of NHS dentistry. …
Dentistry
Calls for Liz Truss and senior colleagues to take urgent action on NHS dentistry
The future of NHS dentistry lays in the hands of Downing Street, the Treasury and the Department of Health.  This…
Dentistry
Ministers to make it simpler for overseas dentists to work in the NHS
Government ministers will introduce legislation to make it easier for overseas dentists and nurses to work in the UK. According…
Dentistry
‘Deeds, not words’ – Rishi Sunak pledges to fix NHS dental crisis
Conservative leadership candidate Rishi Sunak says he will ‘restore’ NHS dentistry if he becomes the next British Prime Minister.  But the…
Dentistry
Dentists respond to soaring oral cancer rates
Cancer Research UK has revealed that rates of mouth (oral) cancer have jumped by 68% in the UK over the…
Oral health
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