No Dentists For the Disabled

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Something that is really bugging me. Every area I have lived in the UK, the dentists have all been located in old terraced properties with the reception and waiting rooms down stairs, but the surgeries have been up one or two flights of stairs to the treatment rooms. I have now lived in the Chorley area of Lancashire for 8 years, I have constantly tried to locate a NHS dentist that has ground floor treatment rooms as I have mobility trouble and struggle with too many steps. Not too long since the Government here in the UK decided to take the funding away from the dentists, making finding National Health Service dentists a near on difficult task. What happens for the elderly or those like myself with disabilites that might need dental care! We seem to have nothing! What gets me the most, there was a law brought in, here in the UK that buildings that are used to porvide a service to the general public has to have facilities for the disabled. Sorry for going on! Just wanted to get this off my chest Lynn-Marie