Dental Services: Portsmouth

(asked on 11th June 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent comparative assessment he has made of waiting times for dental practices in the Portsmouth area following Colosseum Dental’s closure of three practices in that city.


Answered by
Seema Kennedy Portrait
Seema Kennedy
This question was answered on 17th June 2019

NHS England has a legal duty to commission primary care National Health Service dental services to meet local needs, and as part of this duty completed a comprehensive service needs assessment of Portsmouth in 2017. Whilst the assessment did not specifically take transport into account, it did consider factors such as deprivation to understand the level of dental activity needed for the area. NHS England identified Portsmouth as an area requiring additional dental activity/capacity to meet patient needs, and as a result has put in place longer term plans to procure new dental services, as well as working with existing Portsmouth dentists to provide additional capacity in the area to treat patients.

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