Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has had discussions with Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board on establishing a centre for dental development in York.

Health Education England’s Advancing Dental Care report outlined the concept of centres for dental development, to bring together both training and National Health Service dental provision in areas with low access and recruitment and retention difficulties.

No discussions have been had with Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board at this stage. Centres for dental development are envisaged to be designed according to local population oral health need, and accordingly developed between integrated care boards (ICBs) such as Humber and North Yorkshire and NHS England, who will be publishing guidance for ICBs later this year.