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Dental Services: Norfolk

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve access to NHS dentistry in (a) South Norfolk constituency and (b) Norfolk.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
14 Jan 2025
Target answer date
16 Jan 2025
Answer
16 Jan 2025 · 2 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 14 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve access to NHS dentistry in (a) South Norfolk constituency and (b) Norfolk.

  2. 16 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 16 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    The 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 the areas that need them most. To rebuild den...

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