A doctor on This Morning has revealed a new weight-loss jab set to tackle obesity in England.
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People across Greater Manchester have been facing an increasing struggle to get NHS dental treatment and we'd like to know what your experience has been.
A report from Greater Manchester Healthwatch in August found that 'capacity was insufficient to meet demand', and that the NHS website's 'find a dentist' search tool was in urgent need of updating.
In September, another report found that there was a backlog of 70,000 patients seeking dental care in Manchester between April 2020 and April 2021.
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The wait times came under examination by Manchester council’s health scrutiny committee, with Labour councillor Zahid Hussein telling the committee that his five-year-old daughter had been waiting two years for an NHS dentist, 'but at the drop of the hat we can see a private dentist if you have the money'.
This was a claim backed up by the British Dental Association, with them also reporting two-year wait times as well as saying that NHS dentistry is "hanging by a thread", according to a report from the BBC.
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