Question follow-through · 3151
Dental Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure continuity of NHS dental care for patients whose practice has converted in (a) whole and (b) part to private provision.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 19 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 21 May 2026
- Answer
- 18 Jun 2026 · 30 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
19 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure continuity of NHS dental care for patients whose practice has converted in (a) whole and (b) part to private provision.
21 May 2026
Target answer date
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18 Jun 2026
Answer published
No estimate has been made of the number of patients whose regular National Health Service dentist has ceased to provide NHS care in the last 24 months.The NHS contracts with independent dental providers to deliver NHS dental treatment in primary care sett...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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