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1627754

registered interest
date	15/05/2023
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: South West
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of dentists not currently providing NHS services who could do so following the changes he is seeking to make to the dental contracts in (a) Bristol and (b) the South West.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	185059
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2023 answer text <p>No estimate has been made.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 22/05/2023 15:43:39 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

1566010

registered interest
date	11/01/2023
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: South West
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 dentistry practices offer NHS services in the South West of England.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	121047
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2023 answer text <p>There are 758 dentistry practices in the South-West of England with National Health Service contracts to provide dental services.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 18/01/2023 16:41:19 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

1520592

registered interest
date	11/10/2022
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: South West
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer on 05 July 2022 to Question 25955 on Dental Services in the South West, (a) how much of the £4,726,000 funding made available to the South West region for the final quarter of 2021-22 to provide urgent care for patients was spent and (b) what the breakdown of spending was by local authority.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
uin	61341
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2022 answer text <p>The information requested on patient attendance at practices, which dental practices are currently accepting new patients and the funding of National Health Service dental services is not held in the format requested. Patients are registered with a practice for the duration of a course of treatment and can receive care from any practice with available appointments.</p><p>Data on the additional £50 million provided for NHS dental services in 2021/22 is not held in the format requested. However, there was expenditure of £629,148 in the South West region. Analysis of data on this additional funding shows that activity was targeted at lower income patients and those with urgent needs, although expenditure by local authority is not held centrally.</p><p>While regional data on the number of dentists delivering NHS care since 2011 is collected, this data shows information at the former strategic health authority level and does not show information by the current regional structure. The GP Patient Survey Dental Statistics from January and March 2022 shows that 78% of respondents rated their NHS dental experience as positive. The Dental Access Centre in Devon receives an average of 7,000 urgent dental calls a month or approximately 350 calls per day. No central assessment of the level of cases of people conducting their own dentistry procedures in England has been made.</p><p>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 Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 61335 61336 61337 61338 61339 61340 61342 61343 61344 61345 question first answered 18/10/2022 16:28:02 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1520593

registered interest
date	11/10/2022
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: South West
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will set out the £4,726,000 funding made available to provide urgent dental care in the South West region for the final quarter of 2021-22 by local authority.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
uin	61342
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2022 answer text <p>The information requested on patient attendance at practices, which dental practices are currently accepting new patients and the funding of National Health Service dental services is not held in the format requested. Patients are registered with a practice for the duration of a course of treatment and can receive care from any practice with available appointments.</p><p>Data on the additional £50 million provided for NHS dental services in 2021/22 is not held in the format requested. However, there was expenditure of £629,148 in the South West region. Analysis of data on this additional funding shows that activity was targeted at lower income patients and those with urgent needs, although expenditure by local authority is not held centrally.</p><p>While regional data on the number of dentists delivering NHS care since 2011 is collected, this data shows information at the former strategic health authority level and does not show information by the current regional structure. The GP Patient Survey Dental Statistics from January and March 2022 shows that 78% of respondents rated their NHS dental experience as positive. The Dental Access Centre in Devon receives an average of 7,000 urgent dental calls a month or approximately 350 calls per day. No central assessment of the level of cases of people conducting their own dentistry procedures in England has been made.</p><p>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 Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 61335 61336 61337 61338 61339 61340 61341 61343 61344 61345 question first answered 18/10/2022 16:28:02 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1520833

registered interest
date	11/10/2022
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: South West
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 (a) dentists left NHS dental practices in the South West and (b) how many of those vacancies were filled through recruitment of new staff in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
uin	61346
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2022 answer text <p>Data on vacancies filled through recruitment is not held centrally, as practices manage staffing requirements to meet National Health Service dental contracts. This may include moving dentists between NHS and other work throughout and between years.</p><p>Data on dentists who commenced and ceased delivering NHS provision in the South West from 2010/11 to 2011/12 and 2012/13 to 2021/22 is shown in the attached tables.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince attachment 1 file name FORMATTED TABLE Dental Joiners and Leaver South West nhs-dent-stat-eng-2021-22-anx2.xlsx title Attachment 2 file name FORMATTED TABLE Dental Joiners and Leavers 2010 to 2013 South West nhs-dent-stat-eng-12-13-anx2-v2.xlsx title Attachment grouped question UIN 61347 question first answered 21/10/2022 08:31:49 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1520834

registered interest
date	11/10/2022
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: South West
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 dentists left NHS dental practices in the South West; and what proportion of those vacancies were filled through recruitment of new staff in each years since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
uin	61347
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2022 answer text <p>Data on vacancies filled through recruitment is not held centrally, as practices manage staffing requirements to meet National Health Service dental contracts. This may include moving dentists between NHS and other work throughout and between years.</p><p>Data on dentists who commenced and ceased delivering NHS provision in the South West from 2010/11 to 2011/12 and 2012/13 to 2021/22 is shown in the attached tables.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince attachment 1 file name FORMATTED TABLE Dental Joiners and Leaver South West nhs-dent-stat-eng-2021-22-anx2.xlsx title Attachment 2 file name FORMATTED TABLE Dental Joiners and Leavers 2010 to 2013 South West nhs-dent-stat-eng-12-13-anx2-v2.xlsx title Attachment grouped question UIN 61346 question first answered 21/10/2022 08:31:50 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1489943

registered interest
date	18/07/2022
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: South West
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve access to NHS dentistry in (a) Bournemouth East constituency and (b) the South West.
tabling member constituency	Bournemouth East
tabling member printed	Mr Tobias Ellwood
uin	38537
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2022 answer text <p>Since July 2022, NHS England have asked practices to deliver 100% of contracted units of dental activity to safely improve access for patients, including in Bournemouth East and the South West. The South West Dental Team are currently commissioning additional mandatory dental services in the region. Priority areas have been identified for access, based on replacing activity which ceased in 2021/22. Contract performance criteria for these new contracts will include the measurement and assessment of the number of additional new patients accepted for treatment and delivery against the Starting Well Core initiative. Contracts with a duration of four years will be awarded to commence in late summer 2022</p><p>The Department and NHS England have recently announced measures to improve the National Health Service dental system to increase access for patients, target those with higher oral health needs and make NHS dentistry a more attractive place to work for dentists and their teams.</p> answering member constituency Halesowen and Rowley Regis answering member printed James Morris question first answered 25/07/2022 10:31:07 answering member 3992 label Biography information for James Morris
tabling member	1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood

1483419

registered interest
date	27/06/2022
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: South West
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve access to NHS dentistry services in the South West.
tabling member constituency	Somerton and Frome
tabling member printed	David Warburton
uin	25955
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2022 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>NHS England and NHS Improvement are working with Health Education England and Bristol and Peninsula Dental schools through the South West Dental Reform programme to address the challenges facing National Health Service dentistry in the region. An additional £50 million was provided for NHS dentistry for the final quarter of 2021/22 to provide urgent care for patients. Of this, £4,726,000 was made available to the South West region. From July 2022, NHS England and NHS Improvement have asked all practices to return to pre-pandemic levels of activity, including in the South West region, to improve access.</p><p>The Department and NHS England and NHS Improvement are working with stakeholders, including the British Dental Association, on improvements to the NHS dental system and negotiations are currently underway on initial measures. This aims to improve access to NHS dentistry nationally, including in the South West.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 05/07/2022 12:50:06 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4526 label Biography information for David Warburton