Consumer champion Martin Lewis challenged health minister Maria Caulfield on live TV about the crisis in getting an NHS dentist appointment.The Money Saving Expert raised the struggles of hundreds of thousands of people in being able to get an NHS dental check-up or treatment when Ms Caulfield appeared on ITV’s Good Morning Britain.
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00:00 That's a political answer. What in practice, if you were asked the question I'm getting all the time,
00:07 I can't get an NHS dentist, what should I do? I don't have an answer. Do you have one at the
00:11 moment or is the answer just suck it and see? No, no, absolutely. As a constituency MP I get
00:16 this question all the time myself and what I will say to you is we have a website, you can type in
00:20 your postcode, it will show you your nearest NHS dentist and which groups of patients they are
00:25 taking on. I can tell you from my own casework experience at this time last year it was very
00:30 difficult to find a dentist taking on new NHS patients in Sussex. If you go on now there are
00:36 significantly more dentists seeing NHS patients. So I'd encourage people to go onto our NHS website,
00:42 type in your postcode and it will show you your nearest dentist. That's being updated on a regular
00:47 basis and from my experience of helping constituents we're seeing significantly more dentists coming
00:52 forward and taking on NHS work.
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