Dentistry: Training
(asked on 8th November 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to increase the number of dental school places available in 2024.
This question was answered on 16th November 2023
The Department has no current plans to increase the number of dental school places that it funds in 2024. The NHS Long Term Workforce published on 30 June 2023 contained a commitment to expand dentistry training places by 40%, beginning from the 2026 academic year, so that there are over 1,100 places by 2031/32.