Dental appointments: millions “in urgent need” as Ministers “sit on their hands”

EMBARGO: 00.01 Thursday 27th February

Responding to the BDA saying that the extra dental appointments promised by the Government will only cover a third of people who need urgent care, Liberal Democrat Health and Social Care spokesperson Helen Morgan MP said: 

“How can the Government recognise that millions are in urgent need of a dental appointment yet in the same breath lack the ambition to provide even a third of those patients with the care they desperately need?

“When you have patients pulling their own teeth out because they are unable to see a dentist, it is simply not good enough for Ministers to sit on their hands like this. 

“The Conservative Party’s neglect has led us to this point but the Labour government’s complete apathy has been inexcusable. 

“This cannot be allowed to continue. The Government must guarantee access to an NHS dentist for everyone needing urgent and emergency care, as the Liberal Democrats have been calling for years, to ensure patients do not have to continue to suffer.”

ENDS