Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS dental providers have had to return their contracts in each month since April 2024.
The following table shows the total number of general dental practice contracts that were terminated by contractors each month from April to December 2024:
Month | Number of contractor terminations |
April | 4 |
May | 7 |
June | 7 |
July | 6 |
August | 5 |
September | 5 |
October | 4 |
November | 3 |
December | 1 |
Source: data for December is incomplete, as it only includes contracts terminated between 1 and 28 December.