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Dental Services: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reform the NHS dentistry contract.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
23 Jul 2024
Target answer date
25 Jul 2024
Answer
30 Jul 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 23 Jul 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reform the NHS dentistry contract.

  2. 25 Jul 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 30 Jul 2024

    Answer published

    To rebuild dentistry in the long term and increase access to National Health Service dental care, we will reform the dental contract, with a shift to focus on prevention and the retention of NHS dentists.There are no perfect payment systems and careful co...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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