Nearly five million people have called NHS dental helpline since 2019, figures show

Almost five million people have called the NHS’s 111 helpline with dental problems over the last five years, ministers have revealed.

Nearly 740,000 people were triaged in the year 2019-20, rising to 1,096,041 in the following year at the height of the pandemic. Wes Streeting, the shadow health secretary, said: “The sky-rocketing number of 111 calls shows the Tories’ destruction on NHS dentistry is putting the rest of the NHS under greater pressure.“After 14 years of Tory neglect, patients are desperately queuing around the block to see a dentist, literally pulling their own teeth out, and tooth decay is the number one reason young children are admitted to hospital. It’s time for a change.

She was answering a separate question from Labour, which asked for an estimate of how many urgent and emergency dental appointments will be delivered as a result of the Government’s dentistry recovery plan.

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