Dental Services: NHS
(asked on 19th April 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many dentists in England are offering NHS appointments in 2022 compared with 2019.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 27th April 2022
Information on the number of dentists delivering National Health Service dental care is published annually by NHS Digital. Data for 2022/23 is not yet available. The next annual report is due to be published in August 2022 and will include information for the 12-month period to 31 March 2022. Between 1 April 2019 and 31 March 2020, 24,684 dentists delivered NHS activity.