Dental Services: Finance
(asked on 28th 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 additional financial support he is making available 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 31st March 2022
NHS England and NHS Improvement commission primary dental care services, within the overall National Health Service budget. Approximately £3 billion is invested in NHS dentistry each year. Local services are commissioned according to need, taking into account data held at regional level on the oral health needs of the population, demographics and current service provision.