Over 3,000 dentists in England have stopped offering NHS care in England over the last three years, and the number of qualified dentists from the EU coming to the UK has halved, worsening the crisis.
Everyone should be able to access an NHS dentist if they need one. Instead, people across our area are faced with a stark choice between expensive private care and no care at all. This has to change.
We believe urgent reform of the NHS contract is required to ensure that the dentists that we already have deliver NHS services.
In summer 2023, the last dentist supplying NHS services in Romiley withdrew them. Many other dentists across the whole of the constituency have already withdrawn from supplying NHS services. Let us know if you have had a problem getting an NHS dentist.
Our policy to fix NHS dental services is to reform the NHS dental services contract and to increase funding to pay for it.
The new NHS contract should:
We also propose
– Lisa Smart calls for a new central hospital in Stockport in addition to Stepping Hill – New location proposed near former Debenhams site and new transport interchange
Conservative MPs, including the outgoing MP for Hazel Grove, have been criticised after voting against a Liberal Democrat amendment which would have committed the government to improving GP and ambulance wait times.
A staggering 174 out of every 1,000 NHS patients in Stockport – more than one in six residents – who have been referred for treatment are still waiting it to start – the fifth worst performing area of the country.
Hazel Grove constituency parliamentary candidate Lisa Smart has written to Health Minister Steve Barclay after the last dentist providing NHS services in Romiley wrote to patients to let them know they were ending NHS work.
