Dental Services
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress his Department has made on providing 700,000 additional urgent NHS dental appointments.
Answered by Stephen Kinnock
The Government is committed to ensuring people can access urgent dental care when they need it. In 2025/26, integrated care boards (ICBs) commissioned additional urgent dental appointments and there is now an urgent care safety net available in all areas of the country.
1.8 million additional courses of National Health Service dental treatment have been delivered in the seven months between April 2025 to October 2025 compared to the corresponding months prior to the general election, nearly half of which were delivered to children.
Data on the delivery of urgent dental care, including additional delivery, will be published annually as part of the NHS Dental Statistics England Official Statistics series. These statistics are released each August and are the primary source of data on the delivery of NHS dental care.
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