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1305249

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date	23/03/2021
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Dental Services: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to introduce changes to the Unit of Dental Activity targets in the next financial quarter.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	174072
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2021 answer text <p>Contractual arrangements for the first six months of the 2021/22 financial year have been introduced by NHS England and NHS Improvement. The revised unit of dental activity threshold set at 60% is based on data that indicates practices may now have capacity to safely achieve more dental activity. Arrangements will be monitored on a monthly basis and are expected to be in place for six months in order to provide increased stability for dental practices. National Health Service commissioners have the discretion to make exceptions, for instance in cases where a dental practice has been impacted by staff being required to self-isolate.</p><p>The Department will work with the British Dental Association and NHS England and NHS Improvement who will lead the next stage of dental contract reform. This will involve designing implementable proposals that address the key challenges facing the delivery of NHS dentistry and will encourage a more preventative approach to dentistry.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 08/04/2021 10:41:21 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1305250

registered interest
date	23/03/2021
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Dental Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent progress has been made on increasing access to NHS dentistry.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	174073
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2021 answer text <p>The Department is working closely with NHS England and NHS Improvement and the Chief Dental Officer for England to increase levels of service, as fast as is safely possible. On 29 March we announced that the threshold for full National Health Service contractual payment would be raised to 60% of normal activity, whilst keeping in place income protection for practices where infection control is particularly challenging. We continue to explore what more can be done to increase capacity including piloting pre-appointment testing.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 30/03/2021 15:46:50 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1305251

registered interest
date	23/03/2021
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Dental Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many dental practices are open to new (a) adult and (b) child NHS patients in (i) Bolton and (ii) England as at 23 March 2021.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	174074
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2021 answer text <p>Over 6,000 National Health Service dental practices in England have been able to see patients face to face since 8 June 2020.</p><p>In Bolton there are currently 30 NHS dental practices, of which six are operating as urgent dental providers, receiving referrals for any patients who require urgent treatment as well as referrals for looked after children.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 30/03/2021 15:24:16 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1305252

registered interest
date	23/03/2021
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Dental Services: Bureaucracy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his Department’s plans are for reducing bureaucracy in dentistry by giving the General Dental Council more discretion to assess the qualifications of overseas dentists in line with the powers used by the General Medical Council.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	174075
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2021 answer text <p>The Department is working with the General Dental Council on legislative proposals which will allow it greater flexibility to expand and improve on the registration options open to international applicants, which includes the Overseas Registration Exam. We aim to launch a public consultation on these proposals later this year.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill grouped question UIN 174076 question first answered 30/03/2021 16:18:20 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1305253

registered interest
date	23/03/2021
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Dentistry: Qualifications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what changes are being made to the Overseas Registration Exam used to assess the dental qualifications of dentists who are trained outside the EEA.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	174076
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2021 answer text <p>The Department is working with the General Dental Council on legislative proposals which will allow it greater flexibility to expand and improve on the registration options open to international applicants, which includes the Overseas Registration Exam. We aim to launch a public consultation on these proposals later this year.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill grouped question UIN 174075 question first answered 30/03/2021 16:18:20 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi