Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether any of the pilot Integrated Care Boards have made an assessment of the potential merits of replacing the NHS Dental Contract.

NHS England will delegate commissioning responsibilities for dental services from 1 April 2023 to all integrated care board systems. The two types of National Health Service dental contracts, General Dental Services contract and Personal Dental Services Agreement, are nationally agreed regulatory and contractual frameworks which services must be commissioned within. NHS England is currently taking forward a programme of reform work to review the primary care dental contract, with the first set of changes announced in July 2022 and in the Department’s ‘Our plan for patients’ in September 2022.