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Dental Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy that newly qualified dentists deliver a minimum amount of NHS work after graduating.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
11 Jun 2025
Target answer date
13 Jun 2025
Answer
23 Jun 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 11 Jun 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy that newly qualified dentists deliver a minimum amount of NHS work after graduating.

  2. 13 Jun 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 23 Jun 2025

    Answer published

    We are determined to rebuild National Health Service dentistry, but it will take time and there are no quick fixes. Strengthening the workforce is key to our ambitions. The Department consulted on an NHS tie-in for graduate dentists last year, and we are ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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