Closure Of University College Dental Department And Access To Nhs Dental Service

EDM number 733 in 1990-91, proposed by Mildred Gordon on 23/04/1991.

That this House deplores the severe problems of access to NHS dental services in the North West and North East Thames regional health authorities resulting from a 25 per cent. reduction in dental provision, and the closure of University College Hospital Dental School which provided hospital care for 80,000 patients in 1987; notes that the continued underfunding of the General Dental Service will exacerbate this problem; and calls upon the Government to urgently increase funding to the North West and North East Thames regional health authorities to ensure that the previous level of access to NHS dental services is reinstated.

This motion has been signed by a total of 73 MPs.