Penrith and the Border MP David Maclean is demanding that the Government finds more NHS dentists for Cumbria after seeing the "appalling queues" that formed in his constituency last week. "For some time there has not been a single NHS dentist in Cumbria taking on new patients and now more and more are giving up NHS work," he wrote to the health minister, adding: "Thousands of my constituents have now been left without a dentist and it is no good the Government saying that we will get a few dentists from Poland to work in some emergency centres in Carlisle." He said: "Clearly, the dental contract is not working and the Government must immediately address this problem. My constituents have paid their taxes they now need their NHS dentists."
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