PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Dental Services: Coronavirus (21 October 2020)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of enabling covid-19 testing of patients attending for dental treatment to (a) eliminate the risk of asymptomatic patients attending for treatment and (b) support the recovery of dental treatment services.

Asked by:
Judith Cummins (Labour)

We will continue to work closely with the dentistry sector to review whether any of the available testing technologies could be appropriately and safely deployed to further eliminate the risk associated with asymptomatic patients attending for treatment.

Answered by:
Helen Whately (Conservative)
2 March 2021