Dental Services: Older People
(asked on 28th November 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that dependent older people receiving care in your home services or living in care homes can access NHS dental services.
This question was answered on 6th December 2017
NHS England has a legal duty to commission primary care dental services to meet local needs. This includes, if appropriate, domiciliary services. Domiciliary dental services provide primary care dentistry for those who are unable to attend a dental practice or other dental service. Instead the dentistry is provided in the environment in which the patient is resident.