Dental Services: North Devon
(asked on 29th November 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle the NHS dentistry backlog in North Devon constituency.
This question was answered on 5th December 2023
In the South-West, NHS England have commissioned additional urgent dental care appointments that people can access via NHS 111.
They have also implemented a new pathway called stabilisation dental care to support those who do not have access to a regular dentist but require non-urgent dental care.