A woman has flown out to Turkey for dental work after claiming she couldn't see a UK dentist unless she 'took out a second mortgage' and paid £19,000
A woman has flown out to Turkey for dental work after claiming she couldn't see a UK dentist unless she 'took out a second mortgage' and paid £19,000.
Wirral has seen one of the biggest drops in the country in NHS dentists, losing 10 per cent of its NHS dentists in the last five years, reports the Liverpool Echo. Only 12 areas have seen higher drops. A British Dental Association spokesman called it 'a national disgrace' that patients were going abroad to receive treatment and said NHS dentistry had become 'a postcode lottery'. During the leadership election, Prime Minister Liz Truss said that dentistry would be one of her top priorities
For Mrs Murphy working as a chaplain in a prison, her appearance, particularly since she recently lost a tooth, is a big issue as her work is face-to-face. Dr Tam Haque has worked as a dentist for 25 years and said practices in Wirral are struggling to foot the bill taking NHS patients on because of funding problems. He said: "The funding is so low it is almost impossible to run a business. Even if we wanted to, there seems to be no capacity to increase our NHS work load.
"This is the reality for patients who are at the sharp end of a decade of savage cuts to the dental budget. Successive governments have failed to tackle the NHS dental crisis – only funding care for around half the population. The BDA estimates it would take an extra £880m a year simply to restore resources to 2010 levels."
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