NHS: Dental Services

(asked on 10th February 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the number of (1) NHS dentists, and (2) NHS dental practices, for each of the last five years.


Answered by
Lord Kamall Portrait
Lord Kamall
This question was answered on 23rd February 2022

The information requested on the number of practices providing National Health Service dentistry is not held centrally. However, the following table shows the number of dentists undertaking activity on behalf of the NHS and the number of dental contracts in each year since 2017/18.

Year NHS dentists NHS contracts

2017/18 24,308 8,526

2018/19 24,545 8,479

2019/20 24,684 8,408

2020/21 23,733 8,305

2021/22 N/A 8,341

Information on the number of dentists providing NHS care in 2021/22 is expected to be published in the third quarter of 2022/23.

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