People across Greater Manchester have been facing an increasing struggle to get NHS dental treatment and we'd like to know what your experience has been.
A report from Greater Manchester Healthwatch in August found that 'capacity was insufficient to meet demand', and that the NHS website's 'find a dentist' search tool was in urgent need of updating.
In September, another report found that there was a backlog of 70,000 patients seeking dental care in Manchester between April 2020 and April 2021. READ MORE:Anti-vaxxers with 'cease and desist notice' moved on by police from Covid-19 jab clinic after wrongly claiming 'crimes' were being committed The wait times came under examination by Manchester council’s health scrutiny committee, with Labour councillor Zahid Hussein telling the committee that his five-year-old daughter had been waiting two years for an NHS dentist, 'but at the drop of the hat we can see a private dentist if you have the money'.
This was a claim backed up by the British Dental Association, with them also reporting two-year wait times as well as saying that NHS dentistry is "hanging by a thread", according to a report from the BBC.
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