Question follow-through · 22173
Dental Services: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what criteria he uses for defining whether an area is a dental desert; and in what areas dentistry graduates will receive golden hellos.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 6 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 10 Jan 2025 · 4 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what criteria he uses for defining whether an area is a dental desert; and in what areas dentistry graduates will receive golden hellos.
8 Jan 2025
Target answer date
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10 Jan 2025
Answer published
‘Dental desert’ is a term used colloquially to describe areas struggling with access to National Health Service dentistry. There are a range of metrics which can be used to assess dental access.The responsibility for commissioning primary care dentistry t...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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