This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament
Rejected petition Reform Dental Practice so Patients choose to be treated by the NHS or Privately
Compel Dental Practices to have at least 25 - 50% of their patients as NHS patients, have a dental practice allocated as the area dentist, in the same way as GP Surgeries, require dentists to provide treatment at source, unless complicated procedures require Hospitalisation.
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The Oral Health Foundation recently published the following statistics all due to dental issues:-
3 School days missed yearly, 39% of adults don't go to the dentist regularly, 31% have tooth decay, 74% have had a tooth extracted, 2 million travel over 40 miles to access dental care.
There are over 8,300 new cases of mouth cancer each year.
Over 3 million suffer from regular oral pain. This costs the UK economy £36.6 million yearly and each person £80.20 a day.
And Dentists refuse NHS patients
This petition was rejected
Why was this petition rejected?
It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.
Petitions must call for a specific action that the UK Government or House of Commons is responsible for.
Decisions about who private dental practices treat are a matter for individual practices, not the Government or House of Commons. As a result it is not possible for the Government or House of Commons to take the action you have requested.
We have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:
Increase funding to ensure all adults in England have access to an NHS dentist: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/576982
We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.