Dental Services: NHS
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will list the integrated care boards that returned money for unfulfilled NHS dental care.
Answered by Stephen Kinnock
The Government wants to ensure that every penny we allocate for dentistry is spent on dentistry, and that the ringfenced dental budget is spent on the patients who need it most.
Changes to the contract already mean that commissioners can more easily redistribute ringfenced dentistry funding to ensure delivery of dental care, in scenarios where contractors are persistently unable to deliver their National Health Service commitments.
We have reduced the NHS dentistry underspend from £392 million in 2023/24 to £36 million in 2024/25. The following table shows the integrated care boards (ICBs) that returned dental allocation to NHS England in 2024/25:
Region | ICB |
East of England | Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes ICB |
East of England | Norfolk And Waveney ICB |
East of England | Cambridgeshire And Peterborough ICB |
Midlands | Herefordshire And Worcestershire ICB |
Midlands | Lincolnshire ICB |
Midlands | Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin ICB |
Midlands | Northamptonshire ICB |
North East and Yorkshire | North East and North Cumbria ICB |
North West | Cheshire And Merseyside ICB |
South East | Kent And Medway ICB |
South East | Frimley Integrated Care ICB |
South East | Sussex ICB |
South East | Surrey Heartlands ICB |
South West | Somerset ICB |
South West | Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly ICB |
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