Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many dental surgeries are currently admitting new NHS patients in (a) York and (b) York Central constituency.

This information is not currently collected centrally. The measures announced on 19 July to improve National Health Service dentistry and in ‘Our plan for patients’ include a proposed requirement for NHS dental practices to update NHS.UK profiles at least every 90 days to inform the public on whether practices are accepting new patients. These changes will come into effect shortly and compliance will be monitored.

NHS Digital has launched email campaigns encouraging dental practices to keep these profiles up to date and is delivering improvements to ensure that updating this information is easier for practices.