Dental Services
(asked on 1st November 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the number of NHS dentists working in clinical commissioning group areas with the lowest number of NHS dentists per 100,000 population.
This question was answered on 8th November 2022
Health Education England and NHS England are ensuring that the range of skills within the National Health Service dental workforce is fully utilised, providing care to patients with dentists. We are implementing reforms to the dental system to make NHS dentistry more attractive to dentists through improved remuneration and improve patient access to NHS services.