Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to introduce a system to help people locate local dental surgeries accepting new NHS patients.

From 25 November 2022 it became a contractual responsibility for NHS dental practices to ensure their NHS.UK profile is kept up to date so that patients can find a dentist more easily. Practices are required to update their information at least once every 90 days, including information on whether they are accepting new patients.