PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Dentistry: North Shropshire (19 February 2024)

We want to encourage all professionals to commit more of their time to National Health Service work, and to work in areas of the country with a low provision of NHS dental care. That is why we announced the Golden Hello scheme, in Our Plan to Recover and Reform NHS Dentistry. Payments will be phased over three years and require a commitment to stay in that area, delivering NHS work for at least three years. We will decide on locations in the coming months.

The Dentistry Recovery Plan will make dental services faster, simpler, and fairer for patients, and will fund approximately 2.5 million additional appointments, or more than 1.5 million additional courses of dental treatment. The plan sets out a number of actions which will improve access for patients by helping the sector to recover activity more quickly, addressing underlying issues, and setting out the action needed for longer term reform of the system.