Dental Services: Migrant Workers
Commons · Question 63594 · Tabled 30 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 14 Jul 2025
Question
Asked by James Wild
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to introduce a provisional registration scheme for trained international dentists to practice (a) under supervision and (b) with training support in the UK.
Answer
Answered by Stephen Kinnock, 14 Jul 2025
We recognise that there is a considerable waiting list for candidates to sit the General Dental Council’s (GDC) Overseas Registration Exam (ORE). I have asked the GDC to urgently develop an action plan of concrete measures to reduce the ORE waiting list, ...