Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of mandating dentists to work for a proportion of their time in the NHS.
There is no current Government assessment of the potential merits of mandating dentists to work a proportion of time in the National Health Service (NHS).
Work is underway to reform the NHS dental system and contract. A wide range of options are being considered for long term reform of the dental system.