Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to prevent dental practices from requiring the registration of family members as private patients before registering other family members as NHS patients.

Practices are not permitted to require registration of family members as private patients to receive National Health Service care. This is set out both in the General Dental Council’s Standards for the Dental Team, and in the NHS Dental Services contracts regulations.