Have you struggled to find an NHS dentist? Nine in 10 UK dentists are not accepting new adult patients, while eight in 10 are refusing children.
Most of the UK's NHS dentists are independent businesses and are not employed by the health service directly.NHS England said it had recently made changes to the dentistry contract and would "support practices to improve access, including giving high-performing practices the opportunity to increase their activity and treat more patients".The Welsh government also said it was working on reforming the dental system to improve access and quality of dental care.
Austerity also squeezed budgets and then the pandemic hit, creating a backlog of patients with worsening oral health. "Patients are having teeth removed because it's a cheaper option than actually saving the teeth. The whole system is set up for health inequalities, and that significantly needs to change.Dentistry cash 'a drop in the ocean', MP says
Using lists from NHS organisations, we identified 8,523 dental practices across the UK that were believed to hold NHS contracts and tried to call them all during May, June and July.were not contactable by telephone or were permanently closedweren't an NHS practiceFor our analysis, we looked at the distribution of the practices across the UK's 217 upper-tier local authorities.
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