Plymouth MPs launch campaign for more dental training places
Plymouth’s three Members of Parliament have joined forces to argue for a 25% increase in the number of dental students being trained at the University of Plymouth.
The
Peninsula Dental School
, ranked by the Guardian University Guide as the UK’s best place to study dentistry for the past two years, currently accepts 58 new dental students each year.
However the campaign by MPs Luke Pollard, Rebecca Smith and Fred Thomas, and backed by Plymouth City Council’s cross-party Dental Taskforce, is calling for that figure to rise to 72 places.
The MPs have signed a joint letter to the Health Secretary, Wes Streeting MP, calling for the department to allocate additional places for the Peninsula Dental School when the Department for Health and Social Care and the Office for Students look at student numbers later this year.
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