Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate he has made of the number of (i) Dental Nurses, (ii) Dental Hygienists, (iii) Dental Technicians, (iv) Clinical Dental Technicians, (v) Orthodontic Therapists and (vi) Dental Therapists working in the NHS.
The information requested is not held centrally. We plan to commence collecting data on Dental Hygienists, Dental Therapists and Clinical Dental Technicians providing National Health Service care from June 2023.