NHS dentists in Northampton are to see the same patients.

Three NHS emergency dentistry centres are to be closed in Northamptonshire in order to ensure patients see the same dentist whenever they have a check-up.

Premises at St Leonard’s Road, Far Cotton, as well as in Daventry and Corby, are to shut down in order to provide greater continuity in care.

Diane Fenton, NHS Northamptonshire’s deputy head of primary care contracts, commented: “One of the problems with the current arrangement of services is that there’s no continuity of care for patients if they are not seeing the same dentist each time.”

Elsewhere, Cosmetic Dentistry Guide recently reported recommendations made in the Steele Review are to be put into practice in order to boost efficiency and the level of care offered by NHS dentistry services.

Recommended last July, the measures include recording the quality and quantity of treatments for each patient, as well as encouraging more dentists to carry out preventative work.