Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance his Department issues to NHS dentists on whether they are required to give patients notice before they are removed from their register.

Unlike general practitioners' patients, dental patients are not registered to a particular practice. A dental practice can accept a patient for a course of treatment if they have capacity to deliver that treatment. Many practices have maintained a list of NHS patients they offer to recall but no registration or maintaining an NHS patient list is a requirement of an NHS dentist.