Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answers of 22 October to Questions 100521 and 100519, whether (a) private General Dental Practitioners, (b) General Dental Practitioners offering NHS and private treatment, (c) NHS General Dental Practitioners, and (d) Community dentists employed by non-NHS organisations are defined as healthcare workers for the purposes of priority access to a covid-19 vaccine.
The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has published interim advice on prioritisation for COVID-19 vaccination. This advice includes vaccination of all health and social care workers, which would include all dental practitioners. The JCVI’s interim advice is available at the following link:
The advice provided is to support the Government in development of a vaccine strategy for the delivery of a vaccination programme to the population. The JCVI’s advice will be updated as more information on developmental vaccines become available.