Everyone who needs a dentist should be able to get one.
Our plan will deliver 2.5 million extra appointments. It will see:
🦷 £20,000 for dentists to work in areas where recruitment is difficult
🦷 Dental vans in rural communities
🦷 Smile for Life - a new oral health scheme
We're making it easier to see an NHS dentist through our new reform plan which includes:
🦷 more than 2.5 million extra appointments
🦷 dental vans for rural and coastal communities
🦷 financial incentives for dentists to work in areas most in need
More:
On Yom HaShoah, we honour the memory of the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust – humanity’s darkest hour.
We all have a duty to tackle the scourge of antisemitism and fight Holocaust denial and distortion wherever it occurs.
Today you get to choose who runs your local services.
The facts are clear,
@Conservatives
keep council tax low and deliver better local services.
Vote Conservative today to deliver a brighter future for your area.
Remember to get out and vote today.
Great to be out earlier this month campaigning in Hendon and across London for
@Councillorsuzie
.
Vote Conservative! 🔵🌳
A win for Susan Hall and the Conservatives is a win for racists, white supremacists and Islamophobes the world over.
Susan Hall’s campaign has been fought from the gutter with dangerous and divisive politics.
London, we cannot let her win. Vote Sadiq.
Today
@ProstateUK
launches a £42 million screening trial to find the best way to screen men for prostate cancer.
"We’re backing groundbreaking trials like this to improve processes and save thousands more lives." - Health Minister
@Andrew4Pendle
Details:
Fantastic to see more people surviving cancer in the UK than ever, which is partly down to early diagnosis. We’re backing ground-breaking trials like
@prostateUK
to improve processes and save thousands more lives.
My vision for social care is rooted in communities - it’s personal, local and accountable.
It's not just a vision though. Our reforms are turning it into a reality.
Brilliant to speak at
@1adass
's event last week about our plan. Read my full speech 👇
Updates to the NHS Constitution for England aim to put patients first.
Proposed changes include accommodating requests from patients to be treated by doctors of the same biological sex when undergoing intimate care.
More details:
We're keen to hear whether you feel the NHS Constitution reflects the experiences you have and gives you the support you need in your care and your working lives.
Share your views in our consultation:
💬 Health Minister
@MariaCaulfield
: "The MMR catch-up programme is making strong progress thanks to the tireless work of NHS staff, and I thank every parent or carer who has come forward to protect their children from these diseases."
For help & guidance:
Our plans to update the NHS Constitution put privacy, dignity and safety at the heart of the NHS, balancing the rights and needs of all patients to make a healthcare system that is faster, simpler and fairer for all.
The latest stats show there now record numbers of doctors and nurses in England’s NHS.
I also want to see improvements to their working lives so they can focus on caring for their patients.
My article for
@Telegraph
👇
Since becoming Health and Social Care Secretary, I’ve listened to doctors’ concerns around working conditions.
There is much more to do to make the NHS a world leading employer. But today’s announcement is a step on that journey.
Find out what it means 👇
We're continuing our work to improve the working conditions of
@NHSEngland
doctors.
Helping to make the NHS faster, simpler and fairer.
Health and Social Care Secretary
@VictoriaAtkins
explains how this is just the start 👇
NEW:
@NICEComms
has recommended a new life-extending drug combination treatment for children and teenagers with an aggressive form of
#BrainCancer
.
🏡 Can be taken at home instead of hospital
✅ Improves the length and quality of life for patients
More:
✅ The NHS Digital Weight Management Programme is helping patients referred to it to lose over 8 pounds in 12 weeks on average.
📲 We're trialling new digital tools like this to help improve public health and ease pressure on our NHS - making the NHS faster, simpler and fairer.
Children and teenagers could benefit after a new targeted combination treatment for a rare, aggressive form of brain cancer was recommended today.
Find out more about how dabrafenib with trametinib works:
#NICENews
We met Health Secretary,
@VictoriaAtkins
, alongside the
@moversand6
to discuss their Parky Charter.
Feeling positive we'll see action to tackle
#Parkinsons
workforce gaps so that diagnosis can happen in NHS target time, and people get swift access to information and specialists.
Saddened to hear of Frank Field’s passing.
I had the honour of working closely with him whilst tackling modern slavery.
He was a true gentleman who always acted with dignity, grace and good humour.
A great man.