New surgery to clear 5,000-strong NHS dental waiting list

By sweatherill

A NEW NHS dental surgery will allow the 5,000-strong waiting list to be ripped up.

North Lincolnshire Primary Care Trust (PCT) hopes to have the new surgery open in Scunthorpe in June.

It will begin a consultation stage later this month before putting the contract out to tender.

A PCT spokesman said: "The new dental practice will remove the need for the PCT to continue maintaining a waiting list for people wishing to access NHS dental services within North Lincolnshire."

The surgery could then be included within a clinic in Crosby planned to open in about 2011.

Chris Huyton, chairman of the Local Dentistry Committee, believes a two or three man practice would be enough to satisfy everyone on the waiting list.

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