Dental services in Shropshire have not yet been restored to pre-pandemic levels, with “significant numbers” of dentists lost from local practices.
Shropshire Council’s Health and Wellbeing Board will next week hear that dental services in the county have not yet been restored to pre-pandemic levels, with “significant numbers” of dentists lost from local practices.
“During the Covid-19 pandemic, dentists faced many challenges and between 25 March and 8 June 2020 all routine dentistry was suspended as all dental practices were forced to close,” the report says. “Whilst levels of delivered NHS dental activity have risen safely and significantly, as practices can see more patients each day, they are not yet able to offer a dental service equal to the pre-pandemic level and consequently many practices are not currently able to take on new NHS patients whilst they continue to manage the backlog of patients that will not have seen a dentist recently.”
“Several dental practices have needed to secure additional adjacent premises to accommodate their dentists in the hope of retaining them.
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