Cornwall patients waiting a year for NHS dental appointment

Patients in Penzance are waiting 12 months for the next available NHS dental appointment. Cornwall Live reports check ups cancelled by text with August 2020 the next available appointment date. NHS data shows no practices within a 120-mile trip of Penzance are currently accepting new NHS patients. ‘If you’ve broken a tooth the offer of a dental appointment a year away is nothing short of an insult,’ chair of the BDA’s General Dental Practice Committee, Dave Cottam, said. ‘This is just the latest evidence of the crisis facing NHS dentistry. ‘Millions of patients risk losing out, as budgets are squeezed and vacancies are left unfilled. ‘We will only see progress when ministers stop treating dentistry as an optional extra. ‘And when

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