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Dental Services: Wiltshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help reduce the number of dentists moving from NHS to private practice in (a) Wiltshire and (b) other (i) rural and (ii) semi-rural areas.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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

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Recorded timeline

  1. 11 Jul 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help reduce the number of dentists moving from NHS to private practice in (a) Wiltshire and (b) other (i) rural and (ii) semi-rural areas.

  2. 15 Jul 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 23 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.Integrated care boards...

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