Dental Services
Commons · Question 33102 · Tabled 24 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Question
Asked by Helen Morgan
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase (a) the number of people seeing an NHS dentist and (b) access to NHS dentistry beyond the 700,000 additional urgent dental appointments.
Answer
Answered by Stephen Kinnock, 11 Mar 2025
We are determined to rebuild National Health Service dentistry, but it will take time and there are no quick fixes. We will deliver 700,000 extra urgent dental appointments per year, with integrated care boards (ICBs) asked to start making extra appointme...