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Dental Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential for dental students in training to carry out supervised NHS dental appointments to help reduce the backlog in routine and urgent care.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
27 Nov 2025
Target answer date
1 Dec 2025
Answer
2 Dec 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 27 Nov 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential for dental students in training to carry out supervised NHS dental appointments to help reduce the backlog in routine and urgent care.

  2. 1 Dec 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 2 Dec 2025

    Answer published

    Every undergraduate dental student gains clinical experience in the course of their studies under the supervision of a qualified supervisor.Clinical placements provide dental students with the opportunity to develop a range of skills, including clinical a...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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5 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of protocols for exchanging medical records electronically between NHS organisations on patients in West Dorset constituency.

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