Question follow-through · 20541

Dental Services: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress he has made on the provision of 700,000 additional dental appointments; and what his target date is for that provision.

answeredAdam DanceDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 16 Dec 2024
Target answer date: 19 Dec 2024
Answer: 23 Dec 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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16 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress he has made on the provision of 700,000 additional dental appointments; and what his target date is for that provision.
19 Dec 2024
Target answer date
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23 Dec 2024
Answer published
The Government is committed to tackling the challenges for patients trying to access National Health Service dental care with a rescue plan to provide 700,000 more urgent dental appointments and recruit new dentists to the areas that need them most. To re...

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