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Shadow health secretary ‘disgusted’ by treatment of junior doctors
Changing the NHS’s funding model and introducing an insurance system for dentistry in the UK would be a “dangerous slippery slope”, Labour has said.
Speaking on the BBC’s Today programme, shadow health secretary Wes Streeting said the issues facing the NHS were not down to the funding model, but were due to “where the money goes.”
Labour has promised to create 700,000 extra dental appointments per year if elected, to manage the backlog of patients requiring treatment.
Streeting said if Labour were to win the election, he would “get the British Dental Association in” to start the process of reforming NHS dentistry.
“We’ve got to deal with the crisis that is staring us in the face.”