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<p>No specific assessment has been made. In September, we announced ‘Our plan for
patients’, which outlines how we will meet oral health needs and increase access to
dental care, including in Bristol West.</p><p>The plan includes improvements to ensure
dentists are renumerated fairly for more complex work, allowing greater flexibility
to reallocate resources and to utilise dentists with greater capacity to deliver National
Health Service treatment, whilst enabling full use of the dental team. The plan also
includes streamlining processes for overseas dentists and holding the local NHS to
account for dentistry provision. In addition, Health Education England is also reforming
dental education to improve the recruitment and retention of dental professionals.</p>
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