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BOLTON’S Green Party has welcomed plans to cancel a public consultation on fluoridation of Bolton’s water supply. NHS North West drew up plans for a £200 million fluoridation scheme in 2008. But, as reported in The Bolton News yesterday, the regional health body is due to be abolished and the fluoridation consultation plans will go […]

PLANS to add fluoride to Bolton’s water supply have been shelved by health bosses. NHS North West, the regional health body, drew up plans for a £200 million fluoridation scheme in 2008 and 2009. A region-wide consultation was due to take place which would have given people the chance to decide whether that scheme should […]

CAMPAIGNERS have welcomed a delay in plans to fluoridate the North West’s water supplies. NHS North West said it was too expensive and time-consuming to pursue a programme of fluoridation or consultation exercise. The strategic health authority assessed the feasibility and affordability of a regional scheme from 2008 to 2009. It concluded that the cost […]

Southampton councillors have voted to oppose controversial plans to fluoridate to the city’s water supplies. By a majority of around 2-1, city councillors backed a motion opposing the addition of fluoride to tap water to fight tooth decay. And councillors agreed to use any future powers the authority may be given to prevent the implementation […]

ANTI-fluoride campaigners have demanded that health chiefs scrap plans to add the chemical to Hampshire tap water, after a similar scheme elsewhere in the country was abandoned. Health bosses in the north west have admitted the costs of introducing fluoridation there have mushroomed. Opponents of South Central Strategic Health Authority’s moves to put fluoride in […]

COUNCILLORS in Southampton are being urged to vow to oppose controversial plans to put fluoride in Hampshire tap water. The city council will next week vote on calls to promise not to allow fluoridation to go ahead when it takes over responsibility for such schemes from unelected Strategic Health Authorities (SHAs) when those bodies are […]

A senior MP has held talks with health ministers amid growing fears that a looming shake-up will make it harder to add fluoride to tap water in more parts of England. Sir Paul Beresford, the chairman of the all-party parliamentary group for dentistry, said he had put a ‘robust’ case that the changes will set […]

AFTER a long, hard-fought battle, claims that too much fluoride in Tamworth’s water supply is harmful to residents will finally be reviewed by councillors. Protesters packed out the public gallery at Marmion House on Tuesday night offering a united front against councillors they felt had previously ignored the issue. But a petition, signed by more […]

HEALTH chiefs will have the time they need to put fluoride in Hampshire’s tap water supplies before their organisation is axed, the Daily Echo can reveal. Anti-fluoride campaigners had hoped Government plans to scrap regional health bodies next spring would mean the South Central Strategic Health Authority (SHA) couldn’t get the framework in place before […]

Figures reveal Barrow and South Lakeland are the worst areas in the country for tooth decay CHILDREN in Barrow and South Lakeland have the worst rates of tooth decay in the country. Figures from the Department of Health have revealed that the rate of children’s tooth decay in both areas sits right at the bottom […]