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1136599

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date	03/07/2019
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: Closures
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average time taken is for NHS England to recommission dental practices following the closure of a practice.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	272928
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2019 answer text <p>Data on the number of dental practice closures in England or on the average time between a practice closing and, where it previously held a National Health Service contract those services being recommissioned is not held in the format requested. This answer covers England only as Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are responsible for dental services, along with wider health services, in their respective administrations.</p><p>NHS England has a legal duty to commission primary care NHS dental services to meet local needs, and as part of this duty completed a comprehensive service needs assessment of Portsmouth in 2017.</p><p>NHS England identified Portsmouth as an area requiring additional dental activity/capacity to meet patient needs, and as a result has put in place longer term plans to procure new dental services, as well as working with existing Portsmouth dentists to provide additional capacity in the area to treat patients.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy grouped question UIN 272927 272929 question first answered 08/07/2019 16:07:20 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1136600

registered interest
date	03/07/2019
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: Portsmouth
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effect of recent trends in dental practice closures in Portsmouth on patient access to dental services in that city.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	272929
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2019 answer text <p>Data on the number of dental practice closures in England or on the average time between a practice closing and, where it previously held a National Health Service contract those services being recommissioned is not held in the format requested. This answer covers England only as Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are responsible for dental services, along with wider health services, in their respective administrations.</p><p>NHS England has a legal duty to commission primary care NHS dental services to meet local needs, and as part of this duty completed a comprehensive service needs assessment of Portsmouth in 2017.</p><p>NHS England identified Portsmouth as an area requiring additional dental activity/capacity to meet patient needs, and as a result has put in place longer term plans to procure new dental services, as well as working with existing Portsmouth dentists to provide additional capacity in the area to treat patients.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy grouped question UIN 272927 272928 question first answered 08/07/2019 16:07:20 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan