Dental Services
(asked on 7th December 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether integrated care boards are allowed to deliver NHS dentistry through NHS Trusts.
This question was answered on 23rd December 2022
NHS England will be delegating many aspects of primary dental commissioning to integrated care boards (ICBs) from April 2023 under the Health and Care Act 2022. It is expected that ICBs will apply the same considerations to commissioning decisions as NHS England. All potential providers can bid for new services as they become available if they can meet the conditions set out in the National Health Service dental contract, this is inclusive of NHS trusts.