Question follow-through · 1268
Dental Services: Herefordshire and Worcestershire
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data he holds on the number of dentists accepting new NHS patients in the Worcestershire and Herefordshire Integrated Care Board area in July (a) 2023 and (b) 2024.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 23 Jul 2024
- Target answer date
- 30 Jul 2024
- Answer
- 30 Jul 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data he holds on the number of dentists accepting new NHS patients in the Worcestershire and Herefordshire Integrated Care Board area in July (a) 2023 and (b) 2024.
30 Jul 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Jul 2024
Answer published
While there is no data available for 2023, as of 10 July 2024, there were 87 dentistry practices in the Worcestershire and Herefordshire Integrated Care Board (ICB), 12 of which stated they were accepting new adult National Health Service patients, when a...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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