Oral health survey: promised 700,000 new appointments "proven as real as the Loch Ness monster”

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Responding to the government’s oral heath survey that found that more than one in five five-year-old school children have experienced dental decay, Liberal Democrat Health and Social Care spokesperson Helen Morgan MP said:

“The Labour government's promised 700,000 additional dental appointments have so far proven as real as the Loch Ness monster.

“To see your child in pain is one of the worst feelings a parent can go through. But to think that so much of this suffering could be prevented if the scourge of dental deserts was ended makes it all the more infuriating that we are still in this situation.

“It is time Ministers woke up, gripped this crisis and prevented more unnecessary suffering.”

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Notes to Editors:

The survey can be found here.