Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will reform the dentists' contact to ensure every community has dental practices that will treat patients under the NHS.

NHS England and NHS Improvement are working with the Department and the British Dental Association on the reform of the National Health Service dental contract, which aims to improve patient access to NHS care. Health Education England’s (HEE) ‘Advancing Dental Care Review’ made recommendations to tackle recruitment, retention and attracting dentists to areas which are currently less well served. HEE is now implementing its recommendations with stakeholders over the next four years through the Dental Education Reform Programme.