Dental Services: Coronavirus
(asked on 21st April 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many dentists (a) have been trained and (b) are waiting for training to work at urgent dental care hubs.
This question was answered on 4th May 2020
No additional training is necessary for dentists undertaking work at urgent dental care centres. The necessary changes to high street dental services during COVID-19 relates to location and not to the types of care being delivered, which continue to be within the scope of dentists’ clinical expertise.