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Written question asked by Caroline Lucas (Green Party) on Wednesday, 8 May 2024, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 13 May 2024. It was answered by Andrea Leadsom (Conservative) on Thursday, 16 May 2024 on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care.

Dental Services: Weston-super-Mare

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the oral contribution of the Prime Minister of 8 May 2024 in response to a question from the hon. Member for Weston Super Mare, which the 500 dental practices referred to are; and how many of those practices were registering NHS patients on 8 May 2024.

Answer

Our Dentistry Recovery Plan, backed by £200 million, will make dental services faster, simpler, and fairer for National Health Service dental patients. It will fund approximately 2.5 million additional appointments, or more than 1.5 million additional courses of dental treatment. A New Patient Premium is supporting dentists to take on new patients and as of 8 April 2024, nearly 500 more practices have said they are open to new patients, compared to the end of January 2024. The Find a Dentist website allows people to see which practices have said they are accepting new patients, with further information available at the following link:

https://www.nhs.uk/service-search/find-a-dentist

No estimates are currently available on the number of new patients seen by dental practices since the New Patient Premium scheme was introduced, but we are committed to evaluating the impacts of the measures included in our plan, and we will publish monthly data on progress once this is available.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
25203
Session
2023-24
Related items
Engagements
Wednesday, 8 May 2024
Oral answers to questions
House of Commons
Subjects
Dental services Standards Weston-super-Mare
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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