Claims by health chiefs and ministers that nearly all the public has access to an NHS dentist cannot be backed up, according to a Devon patient watchdog.

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Dr Susie Sanderson, Chair of the British Dental Association’s (BDA) Executive Board, will take the BDA’s campaign for changes to the 2006 NHS dentistry reforms to the heart of government this week.

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Dental patients in Wales are suffering as a result of the new dental contract introduced in April 2006, a BBC investigation has learnt.

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MANY dental patients across Wales are not getting the treatment they need because of shortcomings in the new NHS contract for dentists, it has been claimed.

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Contract changes that have seen more than 1,000 dentists leave the health service threaten to bring about the end of NHS dentistry, MPs will be warned next week.

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TOOTHACHE sufferers in Thame are in for some welcome relief with the opening of a new NHS dentist in the town centre.

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WORK is scheduled to start today, Wednesday, on the conversion of parts of Market Rasen’s old police station into a dentist surgery.

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THE announcement of an action plan for the improvement of dental services across Moray and the North-east, along with further details of a £15 million dental school planned for the Grampian NHS area, have been welcomed by Moray MP Angus Robertson and his MSP colleague Richard Lochhead.

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A new NHS dentists surgery covering North East Fife is being officially opened by Sir Menzies Campbell.

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A WEST Wirral town left without dental care, after its dentist was forced to retire due to NHS rules, is to finally get a new surgery.

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