Rejected petition Make all British trained dentists accept at least 25% NHS patients.

In the same way that all new housing developments must include social housing, all UK trained dentists must accept at least 25% NHS patients.

More details

It's extremely difficult to find an NHS dentist accepting new patients. They are overwhelmed. There are many other dental practices that are only accepting private patients. People are in pain and unable to find the help they need.
If you can't make it mandatory, a possible approach might be to offer UK dental students a reduction in, or removal of study fees as an incentive.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.

The decision to take on more NHS patients is a matter for individual providers and is not the responsibility of the Government

We currently have the below petition open on this topic which you might like to sign:

Increase funding to ensure all adults and children have access to a dentist.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/625518

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 26 October 2022
Get petition data (json format)

About petition data

The data shows the number of people who have signed the petition by country as well as in the constituency of each Member of Parliament. This data is available for all petitions on the site. It is not a list of people who have signed the petition. The only name that is shared on the site is that of the petition creator.