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Dental Services: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has for legislative reforms to improve the provision of dental services.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 3 Sept 2024
Target answer date: 9 Sept 2024
Answer: 9 Sept 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

3 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has for legislative reforms to improve the provision of dental services.
9 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Sept 2024
Answer published
The Government is committed to tackling the challenges patients face when trying to access National Health Service dental care with a rescue plan to provide 700,000 more urgent dental appointments, and to recruit new dentists to areas that need them most....

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