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Written Question
Dental Services: Contracts
Monday 9th September 2024

Asked by: Jonathan Brash (Labour - Hartlepool)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the NHS dental contracting framework.

Answered by Stephen Kinnock - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

To rebuild dentistry in the long term, we will reform the dental contract, with a shift to focus on prevention and the retention of National Health Service dentists.

There are no perfect payment systems and careful consideration needs to be given to any potential changes to the complex dental system and contracting framework, so that we deliver a system better for patients and the profession.