Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the impact of changes to the NHS dental contract in 2022 on the retention of NHS dentists.

Data on Nation Health Service dentistry in England for 2022/23 is expected to be published in August 2023.

In September 2022, we announced ‘Our plan for patients’, which outlined how we will meet oral health needs and increase access to dental care across England. These will increase access to NHS dentistry whilst making the NHS dental contract more attractive to dental practices. However, we know we need to do more, which is why we are working on additional reforms that we plan to announce later this year.