Question follow-through · 21948

Dental Services: North Cornwall

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to make NHS dental care more accessible for people in North Cornwall constituency.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
3 Jan 2025
Target answer date
7 Jan 2025
Answer
10 Jan 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 3 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to make NHS dental care more accessible for people in North Cornwall constituency.

  2. 7 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 10 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    This Government plans to tackle 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 areas that need them most. To rebuild dentis...

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