Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the ability of patients to access urgent dental care hubs.

NHS Dental Practices were able to restart face to face care from 8^th June, with the aim of increasing levels of service as fast as is safely possible, taking into account Public Health England guidance and continued infection risks.

Urgent Dental Centres remain open to support the provision of urgent and emergency face to face care for dental patients and patients will be referred to urgent dental care centres, where needed locally. NHS England set up over 600 urgent dental care centres during the peak of the pandemic which remain open for urgent dental treatment. NHS England and NHS Improvement have looked closely at the distribution of these centres to ensure they are as accessible as possible.