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Dental Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to introduce permanent patient registration with NHS dental practices.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
18 Jun 2025
Target answer date
20 Jun 2025
Answer
25 Jun 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 18 Jun 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to introduce permanent patient registration with NHS dental practices.

  2. 20 Jun 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 25 Jun 2025

    Answer published

    The Government has no current plans to introduce a system of patient registration for National Health Service dental practices.Patients in England are not registered with an NHS dental practice, although many NHS dental practices do tend to see patients r...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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