Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans NHS England and orthodontists are trialing to restore the delivery of orthodontic services during the covid-19 outbreak.
Data on the units of orthodontic activity from 2015-16 to 2019-20 by National Health Service commissioning region is available at the following link:
Data for orthodontic waiting lists is unavailable.
NHS England and NHS Improvement continue to discuss the various approaches to management and restoration of orthodontic services with the profession.