The move is expected to be part of a wider dental reform plan to boost access for patients in England.

So it took Ukrainian refugees complaining for the government to pull their finger out of their fat arses and do something.

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    The government is preparing to offer dentists cash incentives to take on extra NHS patients, and send teams to schools to treat children’s teeth.

    The email touts a £200m investment in dentistry, including dentists being “supported to take on new NHS patients” through a “bonus” scheme.

    It found the lack of NHS appointments had led people to drive hundreds of miles in search of treatment, pull out their own teeth without anaesthesia, or resort to making their own improvised dentures.

    Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting told the BBC: "After 14 years of Conservative neglect, patients are desperately queuing around the block to see a dentist, literally pulling their own teeth out, and tooth decay is the number one reason for 6-10 year-olds being admitted to hospital.

    Liberal Democrat health spokesperson Daisy Cooper said: “This plan comes too little too late for those left waiting in pain for dental care or the children admitted to hospital for tooth decay.”

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