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DAILY MAIL COMMENT: NHS dentistry close to biting the dust<\/h1>\n

Anyone who’s ever been afflicted by acute toothache knows it can be just about the worst pain imaginable. Being spared that agony should be available to rich and poor alike.<\/span><\/p>\n

Where dentistry is concerned, prevention is infinitely better than cure. If teeth are properly looked after through childhood and beyond, the chances of decay and suffering are greatly reduced.<\/p>\n

So, a Nuffield Trust report concluding that the future of NHS dental care is hanging in the balance is a cause for deep concern.<\/p>\n

Universal coverage has probably ‘gone for good’, it says, and radical action is needed to save what’s left from complete collapse.<\/p>\n

With tooth decay the most common reason for hospitalisation of children aged six to ten, the young must be prioritised, along with the elderly and the poor.<\/p>\n

Targeted work in schools and care homes is recommended, as are mobile clinics and investing more in preventative care. But above all, we need more NHS dentists.<\/p>\n

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DAILY MAIL COMMENT:\u00a0Anyone who’s ever been afflicted by acute toothache knows it can be just about the worst pain imaginable. Being spared that agony should be available to rich and poor alike<\/p>\n

It costs the taxpayer up to \u00a3250,000 to train a dentist. Is it too much to expect them to work a fixed number of years in the NHS before branching into more lucrative private practice? Rishi Sunak pledged to make them do this earlier this year as part of his health service workforce plan, since when we have heard nothing.<\/p>\n

This disturbing report shows there is no more time to waste. Every day of inaction stores up massive problems \u2013 and a world of agonising pain \u2013 for the future.<\/p>\n

More empty promises<\/h2>\n

The sheer emptiness of Labour’s alternative ‘plan’ to revive the crumbling NHS was exposed as health spokesman Wes Streeting tried to explain how his party would cut waiting lists.<\/p>\n

They would end non-domicile tax status for rich foreigners living here, he said, and with the \u00a31.1billion raised, pay medical staff to work more overtime in the evenings and at weekends.<\/p>\n

So, by how much would that cut backlogs? Four times Mr Streeting was asked this question. Four times he ducked it, limply claiming he wouldn’t be made ‘a hostage to fortune’.<\/p>\n

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DAILY MAIL COMMENT:\u00a0The sheer emptiness of Labour’s alternative ‘plan’ to revive the crumbling NHS was exposed as health spokesman Wes Streeting tried to explain how his party would cut waiting lists.<\/p>\n

The truth is that even if Labour did raise \u00a31.1billion from the non-doms (a very big if, given that they all have the option of moving their wealth elsewhere), it would quickly disappear into the bottomless pit of health spending.<\/p>\n

This Government has ploughed record funding into the NHS since the pandemic with little discernible result. It needs root-and-branch reform, not a bit more staff overtime.<\/p>\n

And what would Mr Streeting do to end the hugely damaging junior doctors strike in pursuit of a ludicrous 35 per cent pay claim? Talk to them nicely, of course, after which everything would be fine.<\/p>\n

The whole interview was typical of Labour’s position on all the main issues of the day. No credible plan, no detail, just a zeppelin full of hot air.<\/p>\n

Whitehall gravy train<\/h2>\n

Amid the worst cost of living squeeze since the 2008 financial crash, news of a \u00a3397,000 ‘golden goodbye’ for one Whitehall bureaucrat will rightly anger hard-pressed families.<\/p>\n

But this extraordinary largesse is far from an isolated case. A staggering \u00a3158million was lavished on exit packages to pampered civil servants last year. When it comes to playing the victim, few are better practised than those in the Whitehall blob.<\/p>\n

Whether being asked to turn up at the office or to pay their own heating bills when choosing to work from home, they moan constantly about supposed ill-treatment.<\/p>\n

Yet despite often woeful productivity, they enjoy perks that workers in the wealth-generating private sector can only dream of. One could be forgiven for thinking that the only people these public servants truly serve are themselves.<\/p>\n

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