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Dental Services

Asked by Perran MoonLabourDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled Answered 16 April 2025UIN 44099

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the NHS 10-year health plan for England will include dentistry services.

Answered by Stephen Kinnock

The 10-Year Health Plan will deliver the three big shifts the National Health Service needs to be fit for the future: from hospital to community, from analogue to digital, and from sickness to prevention. All three shifts are relevant to improving dental health in all parts of the country, and we expect dentistry services to benefit from the plan


Delivering better joint working between services, and more preventative action like supervised toothbrushing programmes will all help people improve their dental health and access the dental services they need closer to home.

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