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It’s 2021 and people can’t get a dentist
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JUST over a year ago the small town of Leiston on the Suffolk coast had two dental practices that took on both NHS and private patients. 

Now it has none. Both practices have upped and left us high and dry. They were both owned by huge companies that were more interested in shareholder profits rather than running a service free at the point of use. 

Our local Tory Cabinet minister, Therese Coffey, seems indifferent to the town’s plight. 

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