A woman has flown to Turkey to have an operation after she claimed she was unable to see a UK dentist unless she took out a second mortgage and paid £19,000.
Wirral has seen one of the biggest drops in the country in NHS dentists, losing 10% of its NHS dentists in the last five years. Only 12 areas have seen higher drops.
Sally Murphy, 58, from Wallasey in Wirral, said she was removed as an NHS patient from her old dentist during covid.