Dental Services: Contracts
Commons · Question 21950 · Tabled 3 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 8 Jan 2025
Question
Asked by Ben Maguire
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of reforming the NHS dental contract to (a) make appointments more accessible and (b) to tackle the backlog of people waiting f
Answer
Answered by Stephen Kinnock, 8 Jan 2025
To rebuild dentistry in the long term, we will reform the dental contract, with a shift to focus on prevention and the retention of National Health Service dentists. There are no perfect payment systems and careful consideration needs to be given to any p...