Shadow health secretary says much of Tory NHS dental plans ‘lifted from what Labour has announced’
During her media round this morning Victoria Atkins, the health secretary, faced awkward questions about funding for NHS dentistry,
On the Today programme, when asked to confirm that the government had underspent on dentistry, she said “the dentistry environment is much, much more complex than that”. She insisted that the £200m was new money, in addition to £3bn already being spent on NHS dentistry.
Seeing a minister duck and dive on the reality of dental funding cuts will be hard to swallow for millions who have been left waiting for so long under this government.
The reality is they’ve left our dental services to rot and now think they can rebuild it with a handful of toothpicks.
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