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Article: 'Go private and lose your place in dentist queue' Desperate North-east dental patients could be bumped down the NHS waiting list if they go private.
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- Aberdeen Evening Express
- Article date:
- August 3, 2007
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Desperate North-east dental patients could be bumped down the NHS
waiting list if they go private.
Nhs Grampian has now admitted it has a policy of pushing people
down the waiting list if they discover the person has signed up for
private care.
This follows Evening Express revelations last week that the
waiting list in Grampian now stands at 25,000 (the equivalent of a 13-
mile queue), meaning it could take years before an NHS dentist is
available.
The one big hope appears to be the proposal to build a new surgery
in Tillydrone which could take 12,000 people, as reported by the
Evening Express yesterday.
One North-east patient, who wants to remain anonymous, was told
that by signing on for ...