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Hundreds queue at new NHS dental practice in Bristol hoping for treatment
(www.theguardian.com)
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Is there a lack of dentists in the UK?
From what i understand there's plenty of dentists, but they are all private. The government doesn't maintain dentists as part of the NHS, in effect they subcontract the work out to private dentists.
We do get subsidised dentil treatment, but it's limited in scope, and the way the government has handed out the contracts means there's not enough spaces to go around.
I live in a city, and it took almost 18 months for me to get accepted as an NHS patient...in the next city over! But I was offered private treatment instantly at dentists surgeries that had "no space". The system is a fucking joke.
Okay yeah that sucks. I hope it gets better