PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Dental Services (17 May 2021)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of how many and what proportion of NHS dentists that closed in the last 18 months have been replaced.
Asked by:
Karin Smyth (Labour)
Asked by:
Karin Smyth (Labour)
Answer
National Health Service dental activity is replaced through recommissioning of services. The most recent data is available to September 2020. Of the 77 contracts terminated or handed back between January and September 2020, 41 contracts have been recommissioned or approximately 60%.
Answered by:
Jo Churchill (Conservative)
18 June 2021
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