Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 22173
Dental Services: Standards
Tabled: 6 January 2025
Answered: 10 January 2025
Question
Alex Mayer
Labour — Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what criteria he uses for defining whether an area is a dental desert; and in what areas dentistry graduates will receive golden hellos.
Answer
Stephen Kinnock‘Dental desert’ is a term used colloquially to describe areas struggling with access to National Health Service dentistry. There are a range of metrics which can be used to assess dental access.The responsibility for commissioning primary care dentistry t...
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