MPs in Westminster debate the limited access to NHS dental treatment in the East of England.
Conservative health minister Neil O'Brien said the problems accessing NHS dentistry were most "acute" in the East of EnglandA long-serving Conservative MP said NHS dentistry was at risk of "collapse", during a debate at Westminster Hall.No dental practices in Suffolk, Norfolk, North Northamptonshire and Cambridgeshire were"I don't think the collapse of NHS dentistry is a phrase too extreme when we're seeing what's happening," said Mr Bacon.
"We're talking about such piffling sums of money compared with the overall costs of the NHS that it's simply incomprehensibly we wouldn't deal with this."Richard Bacon said the money needed to reform dentistry was "piffling" compared with overall NHS costs Mr Bacon claimed the "collapse" dated back 25 years to the "withdrawal of funding" under the New Labour government and was aggravated by the 2006 dental contract."It will continue to get much worse unless the government decides to take a decisive step change and then matches that decision with the right resources, in the right places, within a contractual framework that incentivises the right behaviour," he added.
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