NHS: Dental Services

(asked on 17th May 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the accuracy of reports that 90 per cent of dental practices in England are closed to new NHS routine patients; and what steps are being taken to tackle that matter.


Answered by
Maria Caulfield Portrait
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 27th May 2022

These reports are based upon self-reporting by dental practices on appointment availability via NHS.UK. NHS Digital has written to practices to ensure that online information is updated to allow patients to access National Health Service dental care. Dental patients are not required to be registered with a practice other than during a course of treatment and there are no geographical restrictions on where a patient can access NHS dentistry.

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