DENTAL patients in the East of England will have access to almost 70,000 new, urgent appointments, the government announced reports the BBC.

Health Minister Stephen Kinnock directed health bosses across the region to deliver tens of thousands urgent care appointments, in a bid to end ‘DIY dentistry’.

He said: “We promised we would end the misery faced by hundreds of thousands of people unable to get urgent dental care. Today we’re delivering on that commitment.”

NHS dentistry in the East had been described as a “lottery” with government figures showing one in four patients were unable to see a dentist in the past two years. 

Campaign group Toothless in England welcomed the news but said it had “reservations”.

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