Dental Services: Standards

(asked on 18th January 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will review the targets to be imposed on dental practices as a result of the covid-19 outbreak.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 27th January 2021

The Department currently has no plans to review the units of dental activity targets for the final quarter of the 2020/21 financial year, as set by NHS England and NHS Improvement.

NHS England and NHS Improvement have set a 45% dental activity target for the final financial quarter of the 2020/21 financial year. This target is based upon clinical advice and modelling from the office of the Chief Dental Officer and has taken into consideration robust adherence to infection prevention and control guidance and social distancing requirements. This target also takes into consideration the levels of dental activity that have been achieved to date.

National Health Service commissioners have the discretion to make exceptions, for instance in cases where a dental practice has been impacted by staff being required to self-isolate or the reinstatement of shielding during the national lockdown.

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