Dental Services: Finance
(asked on 3rd March 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to provide additional financial support to tackle pressures in dentistry in areas with high levels of population growth.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 19th April 2022
Local services are commissioned according to need, taking into account regional data on the oral health needs of the population, demographics and current service provision. This includes areas high levels of population growth. Patients are also registered with a dental practice during the course of their treatment, therefore there are no geographical restrictions on which practice a patient may attend.