Reform Dental Practice so Patients choose to be treated by the NHS or Privately

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

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.

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

Why it was rejected

It asked for something that is not the responsibility of the UK Government or Parliament.

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: Increase funding to ensure all adults in England have access to an NHS dentist

Timeline

23 Aug 2021	Petition opened for signatures
25 Aug 2021	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21

Status Rejected

Rejected 25 Aug 2021

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