It's coming - Hampshire first.
Chiefs press on with water flouride plans
Health chiefs are pushing ahead with plans to put fluoride in the water despite warnings it could pose a danger to the public.
Portsmouth's NHS bosses will debate the issue in March and then plan to ask Hampshire Strategic Health Authority (SHA) to carry out a formal consultation.
This will ask whether people want fluoride to be put into the drinking water supply in a bid to boost oral health.
Anti-fluoride campaigners have also been invited to the board meeting of Portsmouth Primary Care Trust (PCT), which is open to the public, to make their case.
Opponents of the move insist fluoride is not safe and that people should not be forced to receive treatment.
However, public health chiefs believe it is a tried
and tested way to cut tooth decay.
Research in 1995 found that by using six 'dosing points', fluoride could be added to the water going into all homes in Portsmouth, southeast Hampshire and Chichester – only a couple of small areas around the Meon Valley would miss out.
Any public consultation would be county-wide.
Paul Edmondson-Jones, public health director for Portsmouth, said putting fluoride in the water was 'the thing to do' and because Portsmouth and Southampton had the worst oral health locally they had a duty to consider the move.
He said: 'I believe that fluoride in the doses we are talking about is perfectly safe.'
The Portsmouth PCT meeting will be at St James's Hospital, Milton on March 29 at 6.30pm.
28 January 2006
Health chiefs are pushing ahead with plans to put fluoride in the water despite warnings it could pose a danger to the public.
Portsmouth's NHS bosses will debate the issue in March and then plan to ask Hampshire Strategic Health Authority (SHA) to carry out a formal consultation.
This will ask whether people want fluoride to be put into the drinking water supply in a bid to boost oral health.
Anti-fluoride campaigners have also been invited to the board meeting of Portsmouth Primary Care Trust (PCT), which is open to the public, to make their case.
Opponents of the move insist fluoride is not safe and that people should not be forced to receive treatment.
However, public health chiefs believe it is a tried
and tested way to cut tooth decay.
Research in 1995 found that by using six 'dosing points', fluoride could be added to the water going into all homes in Portsmouth, southeast Hampshire and Chichester – only a couple of small areas around the Meon Valley would miss out.
Any public consultation would be county-wide.
Paul Edmondson-Jones, public health director for Portsmouth, said putting fluoride in the water was 'the thing to do' and because Portsmouth and Southampton had the worst oral health locally they had a duty to consider the move.
He said: 'I believe that fluoride in the doses we are talking about is perfectly safe.'
The Portsmouth PCT meeting will be at St James's Hospital, Milton on March 29 at 6.30pm.
28 January 2006
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