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 encourage NHS dentists to remain in the profession.
NHS England and NHS Improvement and Health Education England are working on programmes to make National Health Service dentistry more attractive to the profession and retaining current dentists. Health Education England’s Advancing Dental Care Education and Training Review programme is exploring opportunities for flexible core and specialty training pathways to improve career progression and retention. The programme will also offer opportunity to develop new capabilities and competence, including in leadership, management and research.
NHS England and NHS Improvement are developing proposals for new NHS contractual arrangements, which will be designed with the support of the profession.