NHS: Dental Services

(asked on 21st May 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress he has made on the development of a new NHS dental contract.


Answered by
Steve Brine Portrait
Steve Brine
This question was answered on 30th May 2018

The Department is committed to the reform of the current primary care dental contract. Over 70 dental practices are currently testing a possible new contract. This trial started in April 2016 and was preceded by a pilot programme that tested a new clinical approach supporting dentists to focus on preventing disease. In the prototype practices dentists continue to use this clinical approach while also testing a remuneration system designed to support this new way of working.

The evaluation report on the first year of prototyping was published on 22 May and is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dental-contract-reform-evaluation-report-2016-to-2017

Evaluation of the prototype programme is ongoing. The aim is, if further testing shows the approach to be robust, to potentially start rolling out a new system from 2020.

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