Question follow-through · 48991

Dentistry: Surgery

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take through the NHS Long-Term Workforce Plan to reduce vacancy rates for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 29 Apr 2025
Target answer date: 6 May 2025
Answer: 8 May 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

29 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take through the NHS Long-Term Workforce Plan to reduce vacancy rates for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons.
6 May 2025
Target answer date
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8 May 2025
Answer published
The Department does not hold information on the vacancy rate for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon training posts or consultant positions.We will publish a refreshed workforce plan to deliver the transformed health service we will build over the next decade,...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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