Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 63592

Health Services: Migrant Workers

Tabled: 30 June 2025
Answered: 14 July 2025

Question

James Wild

ConservativeNorth West Norfolk

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to expand Overseas Registration Examination (ORE) capacity beyond the additional (a) 1,800 places for part 1 and (b) 576 places for part 2.

Answer

Stephen Kinnock
We recognise that there is a considerable waiting list for candidates to sit the General Dental Council’s (GDC) Overseas Registration Exam (ORE). I have asked the GDC to urgently develop an action plan of concrete measures to reduce the ORE waiting list, ...

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