New school 'no silver bullet' to tackle crisis of NHS desert, warn dentists |
The British Dental Association raised concerns that the 25 new dental training places being created at the University of East Anglia's school is unlikely to do much to end the so-called "dental desert".
Advocates of the school, which will take on its first students next year, have said it has the potential to help ease the situation which makes it impossible for many in Norfolk to get NHS dental treatment.
The thinking is that some of those who do their training at the new school - at the Edith Cavell building at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital - will go on to work as NHS dentists in Norfolk.
Eddie Crouch, chairman of the British Dental Association (Image: British Dental Association)
But Eddie Crouch, chairman of the........