THE Dental Recovery Plan comes “too little, too late,” campaigners have warned as dentists are being offered up to £50 to take on new patients.

Under government plans to boost dentistry across England, launched today after being leaked on Tuesday, dental professionals will also be given £20,000 “golden hellos” to work in communities with a lack of NHS treatments available.

Dentists will also be paid more for their NHS work, and other initiatives will include “dental vans” rolled out in rural areas and the use of the NHS app to see which practices are accepting new patients.