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The Health Ombudsman says it may investigate a decision to add fluoride to tap water in Southampton. Health bosses agreed plans in February despite 72% of 10,000 respondents in a public consultation opposing the move. It was the first time a health trust in England, rather than water companies, was allowed to introduce fluoridation under […]

The Government’s most senior dental advisor said there was not a shred of evidence to support claims that putting fluoride in water supplies is hazardous to health as he visited Bradford yesterday to officially open a new NHS dental practice. Chief dental officer Barry Cockcroft spoke out in favour of fluoridation as he toured the […]

South Central strategic health authority has set aside £400,000 to cover the costs of a likely judicial review following its board’s decision in February to add fluoride to water supplies in parts of the region. The news came as NHS Yorkshire and the Humber said it would carry out a study into the feasibility of […]

A feasibility study is being carried out into whether fluoride should be added to drinking water in a bid to improve oral health in the district. Yorkshire and Humber Strategic Health Authority is to carry out the study on behalf of the whole region, but at the specific request of primary care trusts in Bradford […]

A STUDY is to be carried out into adding fluoride to drinking water in Yorkshire after pleas from two health trusts concerned about the state of children’s teeth. The region-wide feasibility study is being commissioned at the request of the West Yorkshire trusts who believe fluoridation may be the best way of improving dental health. […]

THEY’RE going right to the top. Anti-fluoridation campaigners are to take their battle to Downing Street as they try to overturn the controversial decision to add the chemical to Hampshire tap water. Activists from Hampshire Against Fluoridation are to deliver a petition calling for the scheme to be scrapped to the home of Prime Minister […]

NEARLY 9,000 people have now signed a petition against fluoride being added to the tap water of thousands of homes across Hampshire. Dozens of new signatures were added at a special drop-in session in Eastleigh. Eastleigh MP Chris Huhne, prospective Conservative parliamentary candidate for Eastleigh Maria Hutchings and several Eastleigh councillors were among those who […]

I AM surprised that Professor Michael Lennon, chairman of the British Fluoridation Society, feels he has to attack me personally rather than focus on the issues surrounding water fluoridation and am not sure why he states that I “stoop to new depths”. My concern is that there should be open debate and, far from “denigrating […]

HEALTH bosses in Southampton have denied they have left any area out of the public consultation on fluoridation, after the Daily Echo revealed what appeared to be more confusion surrounding the controversial scheme. This paper reported some residents’ complaints they had not been properly included in the public consultation on the plans, and left in […]

Forced fluoridation for Eastleigh and Netley residents was a “democratic scandal”, according to Chris Huhne [MP for Eastleigh]. “More than 70 per cent of the public responses were against the decision along with the elected representatives of Eastleigh and other areas, but this Whitehall-appointed quango just went ahead anyway,” says Chris. In a last-ditch attempt […]