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NHS dentistry is rotting. Will the plan to fix it work?
Official data shows that more complex care, in particular, has become much harder to access on the NHS. Over the last ten years, the number of routine NHS examinations has fallen by 6% in England while the number of root canals, where an infection is removed from deep inside the tooth, has dropped by 49%.
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UK transplant system, once world-leading, now lags behind
Papworth invented a technique, called Donation after Circulatory Death (DCD), for retrieving hearts from donors whose life support systems have been switched off, which now makes up about a quarter of all heart transplants in the UK. The work was, however, funded by the hospital’s charity, rather than the NHS.
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