Plan to increase access to NHS dentists in England. Dentists

The official plan to increase access to NHS tooth services in England It was a “complete failure” and some of the government initiatives worsened the crisis, warns a damn report.

Millions of patients continue to be denied dental care and forced them to pay for private treatment, build mountains of credit card debts or to carry out even worse DIY toothed healing with their own teeth, as the examinations of MPs have determined.

Without immediate and significant changes to remedy the “broken” system Nhs Dentistry, said the committee of the Committee on Public Accounts (PAC).

“This country is now deep in an avalanche of shattering stories about the effects of the system failure of dentistry,” said Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, chairman of the committee. “It is absolutely shameful that some British were forced to remove their own teeth in the 21st century.”

He added: “Last year of the year Tooth recovery plan If these problems tackle what our report has noticed that it has not to do. Almost unbelievable that the government’s initiatives actually seem to have led to worsening the image, with fewer new patients being seen since the introduction of the plan. “

The Draft In order to save NHS toothing medicine, the conservative government was launched in February 2024, whereby the promise would finance more than 1.5 m additional NHS treatments or 2.5 million appointments.

This included a new patient bonus (NPP), whereby dental practices for every new patient they saw received credits, a recruitment system “golden hello”, which introduced incentive payments of 20,000 GBP for dentists and mobile tooth dargeting communities.

However, the committee found that the NPP, which has cost at least 88 million GBP since its introduction last March, led to the crisis deteriorating, with 3% fewer new patients saw an NHS dentist.

The “Golden Hello” program had created less than 20% of the expected 240 dentists in February 2025, added the PAC report, and mobile dental transporters were dropped in total.

According to MPs, current funds and contractual agreements would only cover about half of the population in England to see an NHS dentist “at best” over a period of two years.

They found that in the two years until March 2024, only 40% of adults saw an NHS dentist compared to 49% in the two years before the Covid 19 pandemic.

She also emphasized the “discrepancy” between what a dentist could earn in order to do NHS work and private work, which described his report as a “basic problem to improve access”.

According to the report, 34,520 dentists in England were registered in April 2023 to provide services in England. But the PAC said that without proper remuneration, more dentists would only switch to the private sector.

Thea Stein, the managing director of Nuffield Trust, a health increase, said: “We warned more than a year ago This NHS dental medicine in England had fallen apart as a universal service, and they could not bring small improvements back.

“This report, which is confirmed today from the PAC, confirms the worst to show with little or even step backwards.”

Shiv Pabary, Chairman of General Dental Practice Committee of the British Dental Association, said: “The MPs have come to an inevitable conclusion that changes on the side and not the NHS toothed medicine will save.”

The department of Health And social care said that the Labor government had inherited “a broken NHS NHS toothic sector” and worked on fixing it with a new plan.