Question follow-through · 90537

Cleft Palate: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve training on cleft in (a) undergraduate dental education and (b) ongoing dental professional development.

answeredAdam DanceDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 12 Nov 2025
Target answer date: 17 Nov 2025
Answer: 20 Nov 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

12 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve training on cleft in (a) undergraduate dental education and (b) ongoing dental professional development.
17 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Nov 2025
Answer published
The standard of training for dentists is the responsibility of the General Dental Council (GDC) who set the outcome standards expected at undergraduate level and approve courses and dental schools to write and teach the curricula content that enables thei...

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