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Rachael Maskell
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(2 years ago)
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Neil O’Brien
Of course, I would be keen to meet to try to address those issues and to build on the work that we are doing nationally.
Rachael Maskell (York Central) (Lab/Co-op)
York has had a dental desert for years. It is six years now to see an NHS dentist and the Government have made no change to improve that situation, or to bring more NHS centres into my area. In March, dentistry will be moving into integrated care systems and integrated care boards. How are they going to solve the problem?
Neil O’Brien
One problem has been that having large, remote regional commissioning for dentistry has meant that it is more unlikely that specific local problems will be picked up. That is why we are taking the step that the hon. Member has described. She is now complaining about it, even though it is a measure to get more local accountability over the way that services are commissioned.