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THE decision on whether or not add fluoride to the water supply in parts of Southampton and south west Hampshire is due to be made at a South Central Strategic Health Authority (SCSHA) Board meeting at St Mary’s Stadium in Southampton tomorrow, Thursday 26 February. Although the policy will not apply in north west Hampshire […]

A FORMER Southampton mayor is being investigated over claims she broke council rules by influencing a vote on controversial plans for fluoridation in the city. Labour councillor Parvin Damani spoke passionately in favour of the scheme to add fluoride to nearly 200,000 Hampshire residents’ water, and voted to back it when city councillors examined the […]

GORDON Brown believes fluoridation has been a success where it has been tried in England. Speaking just days before a decision is taken on plans to add the chemical to the water supply of nearly 200,000 Hampshire residents, the Prime Minister said he believes the choice must be a local one. Almost three-quarters of those […]

Health chiefs challenged to pay ANTI-fluoride campaigners have challenged those backing plans to add the chemical to tap water in Southampton and parts of the surrounding area to accept personal liability if it goes wrong. The calls come after the head of an Australian state signed a legally-binding document promising to financially compensate anyone suffering […]

THREE-quarters of people who responded to a three-month public consultation on controversial plans to add fluoride to Southampton’s tap water said that they did not want it. An independent phone survey – designed to gauge the reaction of a cross-section of the population – also showed more people against the scheme than for it. The […]

OLGA SENIOR Director of Communications & Corporate Affairs Trained as a nurse and worked in operating theatres before moving into health service management, she has held roles as a senior civil servant in the Department of Health. PROF JOHN NEWTON Regional Director of Public Health Having qualified in medicine, he worked in hospital medical specialties […]

The final decision on plans to add fluoride to tap water in Southampton and parts of South West Hampshire is to be taken this month. The decision will be taken by South Central Strategic Health Authority following months of public consultation in the area. It will take place at a special meeting on Thursday 26 […]

Opponents of the mass fluoridation of water will next week try to stop a government drive to add the chemical to supplies used by millions of people in England and Wales. The verdict on a small scheme covering 200,000 people in Southampton and southwest Hampshire will help shape public attitudes to far bigger proposals countrywide, […]

  Most residents of Southampton will have no choice but to receive fluoridated tap water if the South Central Strategic Health Authority agrees to the proposal. Its board is to make a decision on Thursday February 26 following a consultation. While many health experts argue that adding fluoride will help improve children’s teeth, critics believe […]

BMA Policy The BMA remains committed to the fluoridation of mains water supplies, after appropriate public consultation, on the grounds of effectiveness, safety and equity [a]. The BMA believes that local authorities should be more proactive in helping to reduce the dental inequalities that exist across social groups in the United Kingdom (UK). Background Tooth […]