Question follow-through · 64878

Dental Services: Eastbourne

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the number of dentist appointments in Eastbourne.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 3 Jul 2025
Target answer date: 7 Jul 2025
Answer: 9 Jul 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

3 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the number of dentist appointments in Eastbourne.
7 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Jul 2025
Answer published
The Government plans to tackle the challenges for patients trying to access National Health Service dental care with a plan to provide 700,000 more urgent dental appointments and recruit new dentists to the areas that need them most.The responsibility for...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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