PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Dental Services: Finance (30 October 2024)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance his Department has issued to integrated care boards on ringfencing dental budgets in the 2025-26 financial year.
Asked by:
Adam Dance (Liberal Democrat)
Asked by:
Adam Dance (Liberal Democrat)
Answer
NHS England is responsible for issuing guidance to integrated care boards (ICBs) on dental budgets, including ringfencing. NHS England will publish planning guidance in due course.
Responsibility for commissioning primary care dentistry to meet the needs of the local population has been delegated to ICBs across England. For Yeovil, this is the NHS Somerset ICB.
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