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31/01/2024
Alliance Backs Call To Save Health Service Dentistry
The Alliance party has backed an urgent call from 720 dentists to save Health Service dentistry, particularly focusing on the reform of dentist contracts.
Paula Bradshaw MLA has said that they have been regularly corresponding with dentists and will be meeting again next month to determine what can be done, however this is "depending on whether devolution is restored at that point".
Ms Bradshaw said:
"Dentists are quite right to point to Scotland when it comes to reform of contracts as an example of what a functioning devolved government can do. In the meantime, we will remain in correspondence with the Department about what proposals it will have prepared for any incoming Minister to a similar end."
East Antrim MLA Danny Donnelly added: "We welcome this clear statement of dentists' ongoing concerns about what is quite simply a lack of viability of carrying out 'NHS dentistry' under current contracts.
"Also, as a party which opposed Brexit not least because it would inevitably lead to unintended consequences, we will continue to work at every level to ensure there is a common sense solution to concerns being raised around amalgams."
Paula Bradshaw MLA has said that they have been regularly corresponding with dentists and will be meeting again next month to determine what can be done, however this is "depending on whether devolution is restored at that point".
Ms Bradshaw said:
East Antrim MLA Danny Donnelly added: "We welcome this clear statement of dentists' ongoing concerns about what is quite simply a lack of viability of carrying out 'NHS dentistry' under current contracts.
"Also, as a party which opposed Brexit not least because it would inevitably lead to unintended consequences, we will continue to work at every level to ensure there is a common sense solution to concerns being raised around amalgams."
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