The NHS faces a dangerous shortage of dentists as research reveals there are only enough fully trained practitioners to fill one in 12 of the current vacancies. Just one per cent of dentists surveyed ...

The Mirror is today demanding the Government reverses a decade of Tory cuts so people can get an NHS dentist again. The £3 billion total funding for dentistry in England is currently only enough for ...

A dentist in one of Britain’s worst 'dental deserts’ has told of his guilt at quitting the NHS to go private. Today we report claims that the pressure to “churn” through NHS patients could be ...

The NHS said it was "determined to improve access to NHS dentistry" Dentists say the NHS website showing whether practices are taking on new NHS patients is a "work of fiction". Of 34 north-east of ...

An enormous queue has formed outside a dentist after it announced it will take on thousands of new NHS patients. The Lodge Causeway Dental Centre, in Fishponds, Bristol, revealed it had hired three ...

The NHS is meant to provide basic dentistry to all, although since 1951, adults who are not on low incomes have paid contributions for each treatment (currently, an emergency appointment costs £23.80) ...

The local council and MP have become involved in arguments over public need A dental practice in Nottinghamshire says it has been told it cannot offer NHS treatment because there is deemed to be "no ...

The Government has revealed that patients could begin to see savings of more than £200 annually due to a revamp of NHS ...