Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many additional urgent care appointments have been delivered through the £50 million catch up funding for NHS dentistry in January 2022 in (a) total and (b) each region of England.
The information requested is not currently held centrally. National Health Service dentists have two months to submit FP17 data after completing a course of treatment. We anticipate that data for this additional activity should be available from June 2022. Regions are strongly advised to spend their full budget. NHS England’s regional commissioners continue to work with local contractors to commission as much additional activity as possible.