Dental Services: Fees and Charges

(asked on 25th May 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to review dental charges; and if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of free dental check-ups and treatments for all patients.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 15th June 2021

No decision has been made on changes to dental patient charges for the 2021/22 financial year. There are already a range of exemptions to patient charges and approximately 17.7 million patients were treated free of charge in the 2019/20 financial year.

Dental patient charges remain an important contribution to the overall National Health Service budget and providing dental care for free to all patients would carry significant resource implications for the NHS.

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