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To Wes Streeting, Health Secretary

I'm a dentist in Blackpool and my practice is struggling to survive. My greatest pride as a dentist is seeing someone come in with a toothache and being able to fix their problem in 20 minutes, it's why I trained so long and why I love my job. But these days it's getting harder and harder to help people, and I can't sleep at night worrying about my practice going bankrupt. The payments the current government offers us through the NHS simply aren't enough to cover the cost of treatment, so I'm forced to either take on more and more private patients, or go bust.

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Bring dentistry back under the NHS, with full and proper funding to allow us to look after patients the way they deserve to be looked after! Dental health is a huge part of overall health. It makes no sense that dental care is treated as separate to healthcare, and it's making us sicker and poorer as a society. Full and proper funding for NHS dentists now!

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