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February 1st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda - Coalition set aside £28million to expand services
- 1m people who lost access to NHS dentist under Labour will get it back
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James Chapman
Last updated at 8:25 AM on 1st February 2012
Pledge: Andrew Lansley, pictured outside No 10 yesterday, will today pledge to give 1m extra people access to an NHS dentist
NHS dentists are to treat an extra million patients following a shake-up in funding.
Health Secretary Andrew Lansley will today pledge that everyone who lost their NHS dentist since 2006 will now have access to one.
The Coalition has set aside £28million, trimmed from the NHS budget via efficiency savings, to pay for the new patients.
The funding will be given to primary care trusts, who have bid for the cash by setting out proposals to expand local services.
They will fund new dentists, increase the number of appointments with existing ones, or provide care in people’s homes for patients who cannot travel to a surgery. Between 2006 and 2008, a million Britons lost access to an NHS dentist.
The collapse in coverage followed a disastrous reform of dentists’ contracts by the Labour government.
It also led to a sharp increase in emergency hospital admissions from people carrying out DIY tooth extractions.
Mr Lansley told the Daily Mail: ‘Labour politicians let down families across the country who were no longer able to see an NHS dentist because of their failed policies.
Cutbacks: 1million people lost access to an NHS dentist between 2006 and 2008 after a disastrous reform of contracts by the Labour Government
‘Giving those people back their NHS dentist is a key priority of mine so I am delighted that we have been able to find more money for dentistry because of our successful programme of efficiency savings in the NHS.
‘This is a great example of how the money we are saving by working more efficiently, cutting bureaucracy and rooting out waste in the NHS is being reinvested in frontline services for patients.’
The Coalition launched trials of a new dental contract, particularly focused on improving children’s oral health, last year.
Dentists will be paid for the number of patients they care for and the health results, rather than the number of courses of treatment performed.
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We’ll see. If the NHS is free at the point of use as we are told, why are dentists and optitians allowed to charge on the NHS. I can understand if people want cosmetic or expensive unnecessary treatment, but basic care is just as much a health matter as any other ailment
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More talk, will be forgotten tomorrow.
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“Lansley pledges a million more people will have access to an NHS dentist”
just as soon as they can find an NHS Dentist to take on that many patients!
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Can only get amalgam fillings on the NHS. Amalgam is a mixture of metals containing mercury and is in fact very dangerous, so dangerous that in a lot of the EU it is outlawed. Dentists also need to remove good amounts of good teeth to use amalgam.You also have a ridiculous system for NHS care. You go see the dentist, who looks you over and prepares a report, the report is sent to the dental wing of the NHS which writes back telling the dentist what he is allowed to do on the NHS and finally a couple of weeks later you get some treatment. A lot of procedures are just not available on the NHS at all, such as implants or apicetomy. Teeth that can be fixed are pulled for cheapness. As usual its all about the money.
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British citizens have the worst teeth in the developed world. You do not see French, Italian, Spanish people when on the TV with teeth missing. Bliar and Broon are to blame for messing up the dental system in this country. Another area for Cameroon to sort out but cannot see him having the backbone to make sure every district has a NHS dentist.
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Eighteen quid to stick a crown back on which fell off again after an hour and I was told to throw it in the bin. To be honest, NHS dentistry isn’t cheap, private insurance may be better value for money. Have your teeth banded (graded) at the dentist, and pay so much a month according to the state of your teeth.
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Labour and Blair messed up dentistry to such an extent that it is not possible now to find an English dentist on the NHS in this – and most – areas. What is now on offer is poorly trained overseas dentists whose dodgy skills and cynical ‘treatment’ has but one focus only – to get your payment. I have had appalling experiences with these so-called dentists.
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Just another empty politicians ‘promise’! If our MPs had to try to get a GP or dental appointment they would realise that the NHS we were ‘promised’ just does not exist anymore! Why was it so much better in the 1950s ( probably cost far less to run)?
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I cannot see a dentist where I live,no vacancies.I could travel 15 miles to the ones with vacancies but there are no buses.Without a car I cannot get there.
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Would that be a million UK citizens born and bred here. ????
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