Dental Services: Finance
(asked on 6th March 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to Answer of 25 July 2022 to Question 19662 on Dental Services: Finance, how much and what proportion of the £50 million funding for increasing access to dental care was taken up by practices in (a) Yorkshire, (b) the North East and (c) England since January 2022.
We made an additional £50 million in funding available for National Health Service dentistry in England in the last quarter of 2021/22 to provide urgent care. The appointments were targeted at patients in most need of urgent dental treatment, including vulnerable groups and children.
The following table shows the information requested in respect of the North-East and Yorkshire region together and England. Separate breakdowns for North-East and Yorkshire are not available.
Region description | Funding allocated (£) | Financial value spent (£) | Financial value spent as a proportion of the £50 million funding made available |
North-East and Yorkshire | £8,633,000 | £1,980,962 | 4.0% |
England | £50,000,000 | £14,172,074 | 28.3% |
Note: The financial value spent was the amount paid to contractors between February and March 2022.