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Dental Services

Commons · Question 20373 · Tabled 16 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 19 Dec 2024

Question

Asked by Andrew Cooper

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what (a) financial and (b) other steps his Department is taking to increase access to NHS dentistry in (i) Mid Cheshire constituency, (ii) Cheshire and (iii) England.

Answer

Answered by Stephen Kinnock, 19 Dec 2024

The Government plans to tackle the challenges for patients trying to access National Health Service dental care with a rescue plan to provide 700,000 more urgent dental appointments and recruit new dentists to the areas that need them most. To rebuild den...