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Is the cavalry really on its way?

BDJ In Practice volume 37, pages 364–365 (2024)Cite this article

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Practice Plan Director of Sales and Marketing, Nigel Jones, shares his views on how the Labour government will approach dental reform.

The longed-for change in government has now happened. In a speech at the British Dental Conference and Dentistry Show in Birmingham in May, the then shadow minister for Primary Care and Public Health, Preet Kaur Gill MP, boldly declared that there was no need for the profession to worry as ‘the cavalry was on its way'. A true statement of Labour's intent or just more empty words from a politician garnering votes?

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Jones, N. Is the cavalry really on its way?. BDJ In Pract 37, 364–365 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41404-024-2876-6

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