The prime minister has revealed he has used non-public healthcare after coming below fireplace for refusing to debate his preparations final week.

Rishi Sunak informed MPs he was registered with an NHS GP in Prime Minister’s Questions at the moment.

However he then added: ‘I’ve used unbiased healthcare prior to now and I’m additionally grateful to the Friarage Hospital for the improbable care they’ve given my household over time.’

The British chief didn’t say when he registered with the NHS physician.

The admission got here after Labour’s Cat Smith informed him there have been no NHS dentists taking over new sufferers in Lancaster and Fleetwood – with present sufferers ready months for an appointment.

To jeers within the background from different MPs, she then requested: ‘Can the prime minister say how lengthy he needed to look forward to his final dentist appointment?’

Critics beforehand demanded the multi-millionaire chief ‘come clear’, as thousands and thousands of Brits face large ready lists and A&E sufferers wait as much as 4 days at ‘grossly overcrowded’ hospitals.

Mr Sunak tried to keep away from the query on Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg, earlier than saying: ‘As a common coverage I wouldn’t ever discuss me or my household’s healthcare scenario.

‘However it’s probably not related, what’s related is the distinction I could make to the nation.’

He stated that healthcare is a ‘non-public’ matter, insisting that discussing his personal scenario is ‘a distraction from what the actual difficulty is, and the actual difficulty is are we ensuring there’s high-quality healthcare for the nation’.

‘However in the case of the non-public sector typically, we needs to be making use of the unbiased sector. I don’t have any downside with that by any means’, he added.

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