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Dental Services

Commons · Question 39275 · Tabled 18 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 27 Mar 2025

Question

Asked by Manuela Perteghella

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of reforming the national dentistry model to align it with NHS general medical services to include patient registration with NHS dentists.

Answer

Answered by Stephen Kinnock, 27 Mar 2025

To rebuild dentistry in the long term, we will reform the dental contract with the sector, 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...