The Western Isles Health Board, using its user-friendly name "NHS Western Isles", has lyingly told the Stornoway Gazette that "all patients are enabled the opportunity to register" as NHS dental patients. As almost everyone on the island knows, this is not true. When a person living on Lewis phones the Western Isles Dental Centre and asks to register, the staff will tell them that registrations are not currently being accepted. They will say that they can go on a registration waiting list instead, and that in the meantime they will only receive dental treatment if they need it in an emergency. This is not the only lie that the Health Board has told. It also claims that it had no opportunity to review the figures published by the Information Services Division in January 2017 in their Dental Statistics. These figures falsely stated that 80% of people in the Western Isles are registered with an NHS dentist, whereas the real figure is little more than 50%. The Scottish Government's Population Health Directorate has confirmed that the figures were "used for payment purposes" and were "distorted". Using false information to obtain money is the definition of fraud. Moreover, however much the Health Board may squirm, the fact is that the ISD does give Board chief executives pre-release access to the information. In fact it is statutorily obliged to do so under the Pre-Release Access to Official Statistics (Scotland) Order 2008. This is unambiguously stated by the ISD itself in the document in question. The Board says the distorted figures did not come from itself. But its chief executive Gordon Jamieson does not appear to have bothered to read them and to bring their inaccuracy to the ISD’s attention after he was given pre-publication access. Why not? The third recent outrageous statement by the Health Board is that children's dental health in the Western Isles is hunky-dory, because of what is state in a document by the National Dental Inspection Programme. We believe that figures in that document too are false. The truth is that the number of children (under 18s) on Lewis who are registered with a dentist has fallen from 3216 in 2014-15 to 2437 in 2016-17. That is a fall of 24%, an appalling failure by the NHS. It truly beggars belief that in response to our bringing to light the appalling state of NHS dentistry in the Western Isles, all the Health Board does is pat itself on the back. We call on its chief executive Gordon Jamieson to resign, and on the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Shona Robison, to investigate that apparent telling of lies by the Western Isles Health Board, both in order to obtain money and to try to cover its backside by denying the scale of the problem here.