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Dental recovery plan has ‘comprehensively failed’ report warns
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MEASURES aimed at improving access to NHS dentistry have instead led to a decline in new patients and faltering recruitment, MPs are expected to warn today.

The Dental Recovery Plan, unveiled by the previous Tory government last February, has “comprehensively failed,” a damning report due to be released today by the public accounts committee (PAC) is to warn.

MPs found that the New Patient Premium saw the number of new NHS patients fall by 3 per cent.

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