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Dental Services: Contracts

Asked by Tony VaughanLabourDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled Answered 3 March 2025UIN 33115

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reform the NHS Dental Contract.

Answered by Stephen Kinnock

To rebuild dentistry in the long term, we will reform the dental contract with the sector, with a shift to focus on prevention and the retention of National Health Service dentists.

There are no perfect payment systems and careful consideration needs to be given to any potential changes to the complex dental system so that we deliver a system better for patients and the profession.

We are continuing to meet the British Dental Association and other representatives of the dental sector to discuss how we can best deliver our shared ambition to improve access for NHS dental patients.

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