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Dental Services: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will set a timeframe for introducing legislative provisions to reform the dental contract.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
30 Aug 2024
Target answer date
3 Sept 2024
Answer
10 Sept 2024 · 11 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 30 Aug 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will set a timeframe for introducing legislative provisions to reform the dental contract.

  2. 3 Sept 2024

    Target answer date

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  3. 10 Sept 2024

    Answer published

    To rebuild dentistry in the long term, we will reform the dental contract, 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 given to any po...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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