Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answers of 28 April 2022 to Question 116907 and of 26 October 2021 to Question 56597, what progress he is making on ensuring that all NHS dental practices comply with the request to review and update their profile information on the nhs.uk website to help patients find information about available care; what estimate he has made of the number of NHS dentist profiles on the NHS website that are up to date; and for what reasons there was a delay in answering to Question 116907 tabled on 2 February 2022; and if he will make a statement.

NHS Digital is encouraging dental practices to ensure their NHS.UK profiles are updated and is improving the process for updating information for practices. In the previous 90 days, 47% of high street dental practices had updated information on whether new NHS patients were being accepted. This is an increase of 3% from December 2021. The response to Question 116907 was delayed due to additional information being collated.