Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 78513

Dental Services: Norfolk

Tabled: 10 October 2025
Answered: 16 October 2025

Question

Jerome Mayhew

ConservativeBroadland and Fakenham

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of a tie-in period for newly qualified dentists on NHS dental patients in Norfolk.

Answer

Stephen Kinnock
As announced in the 10-Year Health Plan, we will make it a requirement for newly qualified dentists to practice in the National Health Service for a minimum period which we intend to be at least three years. That will mean more NHS dentists, more NHS appo...

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