Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting time for an appointment with a NHS dentist has been in the last 12 months.
The data on waiting times to see a dentist or general practitioner (GP) in England is not held centrally. However, the latest GP Patient Survey published in July 2015 shows that 84.8% of patients rated their overall experience of their GP surgery as fairly or very good. The latest GP Patient Survey Dental Statistics published in July 2015 shows that 85% of patients rated their NHS Dental experience as fairly or very good.