Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will review the contract between dentists and the NHS to remove the limits on the number of treatments NHS dentists can offer each year.
National Health Service regional commissioners are required to make decisions based upon need in their areas, whilst balancing budgets across services. As such, it is not possible to remove limits on the number of treatments NHS dentists can offer each year. While, NHS dentists can over-deliver on contracts in some cases, due to the need to balance budgets, this must be agreed with regional commissioners where it is likely to exceed 2%.