PRESS RELEASE
17 April 2007

New NHS dentist practice for Wisbech

In a meeting he had requested with Chris Banks the Chief Executive and Maureen Donnelly the Chairman of the Cambridgeshire Primary Care Trust (PCT) Malcolm Moss MP was given good news for the residents of North East Cambridgeshire on the two key issues of access to NHS dentists and future NHS funding in the area.

To address the over subscription to NHS dentists in the area the PCT provides a dental access service across Wisbech for unregistered patients and is currently preparing a business case to establish a new practice in Wisbech.

Malcolm Moss MP says:

“The PCT finally recognise the problem with NHS dental provision in the Wisbech area and have now made it a priority over all other calls for dental funding.”

The funding for North East Cambridgeshire since the merger of four Cambridgeshire PCT’s last year was also discussed. The consensus was that the most deprived areas will see their fair share of the funding despite the merger.

Malcolm Moss MP says:

“I was advised that the PCT has a duty to reduce health inequalities across Cambridgeshire and that the direction of travel for investment would in broad terms favour North East Cambridgeshire where the health of the community, while broadly in line with national averages, is not as good as most other parts of the county.”