Patients who fear they will be left without NHS dental care are determined to save a surgery that's set to close within weeks. Private company Bupa is closing 85 branches across England and Wales, including Bupa Dental Care in St Pauls.
It is due to shut at the end of June, with Bupa saying it had struggled to recruit dentists nationally to provide NHS treatment. Nicola Strange who has been a patient at the St Pauls dentist for the last 20 years, has now set up a petition and contacted the Health Secretary and her local MP over the plans to close the branches across the country.
Nicola said: “We are relatively comfortable so it [going private] is not so scary, but I’m more concerned for all the other people and the children who should be having an NHS dentistry and it’s not going to be there. The dentist is absolutely fuming and understands what’s been happening over the years.
