Sign our message to the PM and Health Secretary

To Keir Starmer and Wes Streeting.

Today a failed contract turns 20.

That’s twenty years of hurt.

Two decades of chaos, queues and cuts.

And for almost as long we’ve had inquiries, reports, and promises of change.

Tweaks will never be enough. Neither is bringing in more dentists who won't want to work in the NHS. 

We need a decisive break from a model that puts government targets before patient care.

 

But reform without sustainable funding is doomed to failure.

Today’s system was designed to cap spending.

Its architects ensured there isn’t enough dentistry to go round.

These choices - taken to new limits by austerity - mean we now have practices delivering NHS care at a loss. An exodus from the workforce that shows no sign of slowing. And nearly 14 million adults in England have nowhere to go.

Without sustainable funding NHS dentistry will remain built on sand.

Without action here your promises to save this service simply cannot be kept.

From

Dentists the length and breadth of England.

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