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Toothless in England urge government to declare ‘dental emergency’
Health minister Dame Andrea Leadsom appearing before the Health and Social Care Committee in the House of Commons, London alongside NHS bosses for the concluding evidence session in its pharmacy inquiry, March 26, 2024
CAMPAIGNERS from Toothless in England have urged the government to declare a “dental emergency.”
Mark Jones, co-founder of the campaign, attended a meeting held at the Department of Health and Social Care on Wednesday, and chaired by the government’s dental minister Andrea Leadsom.
Mr Jones reminded the minister of the ongoing deaths of patients across the country due to preventable oral cancer and dental sepsis, and proposed the government declare an emergency.
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